Velke Kapušany Garden Project

LDS Charities is working a humanitarian project the past several months. For some reason, this project is slow moving and will not be completed by the time we leave Slovakia. 

Spojená škola, a combined 

school in Velké Kapušany, enrolls 200 children in all grade levels who have physical and mental disabilities. The school shares the building with an orphanage on the bottom levels and the upper four floors is where the school and classrooms are located. 

Students come from all around Eastern Slovakia and are prominently Roma. The school teaches basic education as well as work training and limited skilled trades to help students become self-reliant and assimilate into society. 

The NGO is requesting LDS Charities help fund an “educational garden” in the back lot. Staff members plan to teach students horticulture cultivation and management including soil composting, landscape design, planting, gardening, and harvesting vegetables and herbs. Students would be involved in every possible opportunity for hands-on learning and skills.

In favorable weather, classes would be taught on wooden benches around fruit trees and small fish pond. 

The staff have wood working tools to teach basic skills in constructing the benches. A large wood lattice covering will be built as well as for shade and rainy weather for outside classes.

Mildly disabled children can learn to become self-reliant and do helpful service or wood work. 

This project is already in progress and more work will be completed through the coming school year. Our replacement couple will follow up and oversee that the objectives are met on this project.