Young vegetables and voices of El Convento

Students of a rural high-school grow their food, produce a podcast.

 

Written and photographed by David Domínguez for El Tambograndino Noticias

 

TAMBOGRANDÉ, Peru – The students of Niño Jesus de Praga High-School, El Convento Village, Malingas Alto Community, are developing two educational projects from subjects of Labor education and Communications.

The first one is addressed to improve the technical-productive skills for growing organic vegetables. The students, advised by the Labor education teacher, seed cucumbers, coriander, carrots, beetroots, among others.

The students plant, irrigate, care the vegetables – the interesting is that the school experience is brought home like harvest purposed to be added into the family  diet. Although those vegetables grow at the countryside, its local consumption trends to be lower in spite of its high nutritional properties.

 

In the second Project, the students produce a short news bulletin that helps them to develop skills in reading, writing, and communication in their mother language (Latin-American Spanish).

The contents are based on their own reality which they further present like newscasts or interviews, posted on the school’s Facebook account and fanpage. The show is called La Voz Pragasina (The Prague’s Voice), it’s advised by their Communications teacher.

El Convento (509 to 574 feet altitude) is a village that, even locating in Tambograndé District, it’s 25 miles to the southeast of its district’s capital city. Its inhabitants prefer to connect faster to Chulucanas City, capital of same name’s district and Morropón Province, that is 11 miles to the south.

Its name could be due to the existence of a Catholic convent that was razed by heavy rains during an El Niño event in 1570, which no basement remains but pieces of porcelain, according to a FACTORTIERRA research conducted at the sector between 2009 and 2011.

 

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