Our Projects
Healing Gardens
Together with a local foundation partner, OnePlate has developed a Healing Gardens project that is centred around creating organic gardens with Rwandan women, most of whom are survivors of the Rwandan genocide.
Healing Gardens
Together with a local foundation partner, OnePlate has developed a Healing Gardens project that is centred around creating organic gardens with Rwandan women, most of whom are survivors of the Rwandan genocide. The project is designed to provide food to eat and nourish themselves and their families as well as provide them with a source of income. As part of this project, the women are trained in horticulture, and how to cook healthy meals and how to prevent malnutrition. They learn about health, disease prevention and mental health awareness as well as business insights to help sell their goods at local markets. With the assistance of a Field Officer/Agronomist, the women are provided with seeds, watering cans, organic compost and other gardening tools. They are also provided with a water tank so that the women have a guaranteed water source (that can be replenished) in instances of drought.
The Kenyan Orchard
Kenya is an impoverished nation, with over 16 million of its 40 million inhabitants living below the poverty line. The statistics are hard to digest: 35% of children-under-five are stunted, 16% are underweight and 7% are wasted. If these children don’t get… read more
The Orchard: Kenya
OnePlate has partnered with a children’s eco-village school that cares for more than 100 abandoned children. The 5-hectare property includes a nursery, primary school and two boarding houses, greenhouses and a training centre. OnePlate has established a fruit orchard on a plot of unused land on the farm. Working with the local community and volunteers, the orchard has bananas and nut-trees planted. The village farmers are also keen to try citrus and apples, to provide a stable source of fruit all year round. OnePlate is excited to partner with this thriving little corner in Kenya to ensure it continues to grow for many seasons to come.
Children's Rooftop Farm
OnePlate’s first project was to create a rooftop garden built above a foundation that looks after children living on the streets. Designed by a leading horticulturalist to produce enough food to feed 100 children, this urban oasis is now flourishing with more than 20 varieties of fruit and vegetables.
Urban Rooftop Garden: Manila
OnePlate’s first project was to create a rooftop garden built above a foundation that looks after children living on the streets. Designed by a leading horticulturalist to produce enough food to feed 100 children, this urban oasis is now flourishing with more than 20 varieties of fruit and vegetables. But the garden provides more than just food. The children, who often experience trauma from life on the streets, find healing, peace and a sense of purpose in tending their garden.
Cambodia
School Nutritional Gardens
OnePlate’s partner foundation in a rural village in Cambodia provides schooling for children from slum areas who are vulnerable, at risk, and would otherwise be spending their days begging on the streets.
School Nutritional Gardens: Cambodia
OnePlate’s partner foundation in a rural village in Cambodia provides schooling for children from slum areas who are vulnerable, at risk, and would otherwise be spending their days begging on the streets. OnePlate has developed the cultivation of fruits and vegetables in the school grounds as a means of increasing high quality, nourishing food for these vulnerable children. Over one hundred ‘at risk’ children benefit from these nutritional gardens. The children are being taught basic farming skills and those who show promise are given the opportunity to attend further training programs.
Philippines
Manila's Family Farm
This innovative, 4-hectare, sustainable family farm is being built just outside Manila. It will provide 50 street families with the tools, confidence, knowledge and housing they need to move away from their poverty-strapped city existence to live a safer, healthier life. The families are responsible for managing the fully working farm, learning to grow their own food and building their own sustainable food enterprises.
Family Farm: Manila
This innovative, 4-hectare, sustainable family farm is being built just outside Manila. It will provide 50 street families with the tools, confidence, knowledge and housing they need to move away from their poverty-strapped city existence to live a safer, healthier life. The families are responsible for managing the fully working farm, learning to grow their own food and building their own sustainable food enterprises. OnePlate is planting 2,000 fruit and nut trees on the farm, enabling this project to expand and offering a new life for these families for many years to come.
Philippines
Tacloban 120 Families
In the upland, hilly area of Tacloban City live some of the poorest farming communities. In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan devastated the city, and food production remains poor to this day. The community is barely able to grow enough to survive… read more
Tacloban Project: The Philippines
Some of the poorest communities live in Tacloban City, which was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. OnePlate provided 120 people with a five-week training course in organic agriculture, as well as seeds and tools to establish their own fruit and vegetable gardens. Topics in the course cover vegetable production, budgeting, worm farming, organic fertilisers, pest control and entrepreneurial thinking. Previously many of these families were only able to give their children a little piece of bread once a day; now they grow enough food to feed their families nourishing meals.
Kenya
The Bakery Project
The Bakery Project was originally set up to be a self-sustaining fundraising model for the children’s eco-village school that cares for 100 abandoned children.
School Nutritional Gardens: Cambodia
The Bakery Project was originally set up to be a self-sustaining fundraising model for the children’s eco-village school that cares for 100 abandoned children. This pilot program has already succeeded in its three main objectives - to provide bread for the children in the home, to teach them how to bake, and how to sell the bread locally. OnePlate is now supporting the bakery so it can be taken to the next level - a full scale bakery production. The bakery will serve as a business in north-west Kenya that will produce and sell high-end baked goods to retail and wholesale customers. The business will be offering additional training classes to the local community, as well as improving facilities and scaling up production from 400 loaves per day to over 1,000. This social enterprise not only provides bread for the 100 children but a good income stream to support their education.
Kenya
Poultry Project
The children’s school is dedicated to improving the lives of Kenyan children. The poultry farm resides on the premises and was an established small business, but lack of investment funds had restricted its scale.
Poultry Project: Kenya
The children’s school is dedicated to improving the lives of Kenyan children. The poultry farm resides on the premises and was an established small business, but lack of investment funds had restricted its scale. OnePlate has purchased additional farming equipment, larger bird buildings and bigger storage facilities, which will enable the home to triple the production of chickens and, in turn, the meat and eggs available to sell to local businesses. The additional manure produced will also be used for fish farming and to improve the soil quality for future crop production. This expansion was essential to ensure a more stable, viable income for the children’s school and improved food availability for the 400 children.
Congo
Pathway to Education
OnePlate’s project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) allows some of the world’s poorest children to go to school through our Family Farms initiative. Children, as young as 10, work in the mines and young girls can be forced into marriage or sell sexual favours just to survive.
Pathway to Education: Congo
OnePlate’s project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) allows some of the world’s poorest children to go to school through our Family Farms initiative. Children, as young as 10, work in the mines and young girls can be forced into marriage or sell sexual favours just to survive. OnePlate has supported the development of a demonstration farm to teach children (and the local community) to grow and tend their own home vegetable gardens. The children are taught how to manage seed banks, grow and tend crops and have classes on cooking, storing food and selling produce at markets. They are also given the tools and seeds to start their own family farm. The ‘back to school’ initiative gives families a stable source of food and any excess crop can be sold. But more importantly, if there is enough food at home, children are allowed to attend school. Part of the funding gives ‘scholarships’ to children, so that families who take up the program do not suffer the financial loss of their children not being at work. The ‘back to school’ initiative breaks the culture of poverty at every level—through education, work, food and family.
Cambodia
The Children's Village
The Cambodia Children’s Village was established to provide education, meals and a safe environment for at-risk children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned. OnePlate’s involvement was to focus on the expansion of the village’s orchard to enable the delivery of year-round fresh fruit to the children by introducing new fruit species and varieties.
Children’s Orchard: Cambodia
The Cambodia Children’s Village was established to provide education, meals and a safe environment for at-risk children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned. OnePlate’s involvement was to focus on the expansion of the village’s orchard to enable the delivery of year-round fresh fruit to the children by introducing new fruit species and varieties. OnePlate raised funds to expand the orchard to include extra fruit species including mangoes, papaya, jackfruit and avocados. As part of this project, the children are also being taught the necessity of good nutrition. The year-round fruit will give them access to a stable source of food, as well as the potential for income from any excess fruit. They are also being taught how to process the fruit into products such as dried fruit, juices and preserves.
Cambodia
Aquaponic Garden
OnePlate has partnered with a children’s centre in Cambodia that provides a home, education and therapeutic counselling to approximately 100 seriously disadvantaged and abandoned children. A space in the centre’s property was designed to be converted into a hydroponic and aquaponic children’s garden.
Children’s Orchard: Cambodia
OnePlate has partnered with a children’s centre in Cambodia that provides a home, education and therapeutic counselling to approximately 100 seriously disadvantaged and abandoned children. A space in the centre’s property was designed to be converted into a hydroponic and aquaponic children’s garden. The garden includes an aquaponics area with fish, together with plants and hens adjoining the garden. The garden is a circuit of life that starts with organic waste to feed fly larvae and chickens followed by a water life circuit from larvae to fish that flows to the plants and back again to the fish. The garden is entirely chemical free and all of the children in the centre learn how to work in the garden. The children eagerly watch over the fish, plants and hens, eagre to see them thrive and grow. The produce has now started to flow to the centre and reduces the cost of daily living.
Future projects include:
Rooftop gardens in urban cities.
Wall food gardens in slums.
School gardens and lunch programs.
Agriculture/gardening skills workshops.
Goat, pig and chicken farms.
Worm farming.
Seed banks.
Creative and effective projects to give people the tools they need to grow their own food, and create their own food self-sufficiency.
Hydroponic cultivation.
Aquaculture.
Community cooking classes.
Basic health and nutrition community awareness.