New Yundum – During a first Green Desert workshop in May 2011 a team from Project Lighthouse Africa’s partner organisation Green Desert e.V. has trained volunteer workers from Project Lighthouse Gambia’s Vocational Training and Knowledge Centre (VTC) at New Yundum in the Gambia. The training was focused on the production of fertiliser with local available material, construction of a fertiliser station and the experimental seedling breeding and planting by using fertilised soil.
Mr. Robert Strey, a senior student in geology and soil science and Mrs. Bianca Kummer, a landscape architecture candidate, spent more than three weeks in the West African Country.
Goal of the excursion was a first feasibility study for Green Desert projects like innovative farming techniques, mechanical pump systems, wind generators and compost toilets. Green Desert e.V. is a charitable science and technology association based and registered in Hannover, Germany.
