GivingPoint - Carver Senior Garden Courtyard

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GivingPoint - Carver Senior Garden Courtyard

Posted by

Ansley C

Start Date:

3/19/2011

End Date:

8/29/2012

Nonprofit Partner
Carver School of Health Science and Research - Primary Account

Cause

Environment and Climate Change

Amount
$0.00 of $500.00 raised
$500.00 to go
6 of 10 volunteers

Location

55 McDonough Blvd.
Atlanta,Georgia 30315

Project Budget

We will use the $500 to make improvements to the garden, including planting additional fruit bushes, vegetable plants and strawberries throughout the school year.

Project Additional Details

GivingPoint is a nationwide community-based youth development nonprofit. As a youth advisory board member of GivingPoint, I will work with GivingPoint, the YMCA and Carver High School to implement this project. Together, we will address a critical need to improve the environment, while providing at-risk and special needs teens with an outdoor working classroom and a quiet place of solace. We will empower 400 students over a 3-month period to enrich the environment. This project will create connections among classrooms, cafeterias, and gardens, involving teachers, students, cafeteria workers, parents, administrators, farmers and non-profits in activities that support the environment and sustainable agriculture. We can restore native plant ecosystems with an abundance of fruit trees and plants that benefit the surrounding air and soil and provide food sources for the local YMCA and Carver High School. Students will build walking trails, remove trash and invasive weeds, and plant vegetables, fruit bushes and trees.

The problem you want to help solve?
We will help the environment by growing local fruits and vegetables. Students will learn how to grow and maintain a garden behind the school.To improve the environment, we will build a multi-layered garden with beauty, fragrance, edible plants and fruit trees, designed for wheelchair and non-wheelchair bound children. This garden and tree orchard will directly improve the quality of the air, reduce noise pollution, prevent flash-flooding and stop erosion.
Why is it important?
Today’s children are increasingly disconnected from the natural world. Young people are spending more and more time plugged into electronics, and less time outdoors learning about the environment, exploring, and relating to the world around them. This project will serve as an outdoor classroom for high school students in Fulton County to connect with nature, learn about botany, ecology, and how to protect the planet’s health.
Who will benefit?
The primary goal of this project is to successfully engage young people in the process of creating a sustainable project to help the environment. This project will create lifetime environmental and community stewards by providing a much-needed experiential learning environment. We can offer a useful, safe and friendly place for the Atlanta community to join forces to improve the earth. We hope to give under-served youth a clear sense of belonging and responsibility to their communities. We want all of our youth volunteers to feel better about themselves and confident that they have something of value to offer.
What will you be doing?
Through this program, hundreds of youth will help the environment by beautifying 1,000 square feet of unsightly grounds with vegetables, edible plants and fruit trees. This outdoor classroom will prevent erosion, enhance the beauty and livability of the land, reduce noise pollution, supply fresh fruits and vegetables for the community, and provide a place of solace. We will reclaim land, and in the process, help dedicated students, youth-serving organizations and parents make their local community garden a place to gather and better the environment. Your investment will teach volunteers about conservation, environmental issues, landscaping, and garden maintenance. Within just a few months, we expect thousands of volunteers from the Atlanta area to volunteer over 800 hours of meaningful community service. The service programs will develop their hands-on responsibilities and foster team-building in the process of improving their local environment by planting trees, bushes, and shrubs to make their community a better place to live.