Our Integral School Model MEI, has 8 lines of action that we implement in each public elementary school that we accompany for an initial 6 year period. One of them is ENVIRONMENT. Through this line of action we implement and construct school orchards. This allows the whole school community to grow healthy fruits and vegetables and to learn how to do it in their backyards at home. This allows them to include fruits and vegetables in their everyday nutrition, to grow healthy food for their livelihood and to eat fresh every day to combat obesity.
In practice it is a wonderful activity. The whole school community participates and benefits from it. It is a healthy way to teach students how to include fruits and vegetables into their daily nutrition, and also these orchards are a source of self generated income for their families, as they apply these tactics to create backyard orchards in their homes even if they do not have the space to do so. Students learn from seed types, to soil types, to how much water this vegetables require. They also learn from how harmful pesticides could be in fruits and vegetables.
In 2025 we accompanied 146 schools in rural and urban areas in Mexico. We accompanied this year 5 school orchards in 2 states of the Mexican Republic. We started this program since 2017.
Each year we accompany new schools and through our Integral School Model we implement our 8 lines of action, one of them is Environment. In this line of action, we recycle paper, we implement school orchards and we separate trash in public and middle elementary schools who are accompanied by our Integral School Model.
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https://www.proeducacion.org.mx/
