SowGood Foundation
Nonprofit that builds learning farms inside schools so children learn eco literacy by growing food.
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Opportunities from SowGood Foundation
SowGood Nature Connect School Farming Programme
by SowGood Foundation
A three year school farming curriculum for Grades 3 to 5, where children build and run a farm, composting and waste unit on their own school campus.
What your child could gain:
About
SowGood Foundation is a farm based learning organisation that works with schools to make eco literacy a lived habit for children rather than a textbook topic. It began in 2017 when founder Pragati Chaswal grew potatoes on a balcony with her son, and has since built learning farms, composting units and waste segregation systems inside partner school campuses. The organisation states its vision as growing a more nature connected generation, and its mission as creating learning farms in schools to generate empathy and action for a greener future. Its work is structured around a three step philosophy of Vichaar, Aachaar and Prachaar, which moves children from awareness to daily practice and then to influencing their families and neighbourhoods. SowGood runs three linked offerings. The Nature Connect School Program embeds farming in the school timetable, the Learning Farm hosts urban farming experiences for children, and a Teachers Training programme equips school staff to sustain the farms independently. Private schools pay a programme fee, while government MCD school programmes are funded through donations and corporate partners so they run at no cost to those schools.
Affiliations
Programs Offered
- Nature Connect School Program
- Learning Farm
- Teachers Training
- Roots annual gathering
- SowGood Day
Achievements
- Agreement signed with the Education Department, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (2022-23)
- 74,000 children reached across Delhi NCR since 2017
- 28 school learning farms created across Delhi NCR
- 50 teacher training workshops conducted since 2017
- 6,000 kilograms of compost harvested with children
Leadership
- Pragati Chaswal, Founder
- Henna Jain, Program Consultant
- Vikas Kumar, Farm Resource Manager
- Gulnara, Senior Facilitator
- Chandani Chopra, Advisor (Simple Education Foundation)
- Kanchan Lall, Advisor (The Education Alliance)
- Dr. Suruchi Mittar, Advisor
Contact Information
Quick Facts
- Type
- Non-profit
- Founded
- 2017
- Opportunities
- 1 on WiWit
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