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The Biodiversity Education Garden
Centre (BEGC) is a service learning project that engages children and young
people especially senior secondary school students in the establishment and maintenance of biodiversity education
gardens on school compounds hence developing practical skills in ecosystems designing, enhancement, restoration and management, gardening,
landscaping, indigenous plant nursery establishment, nature caring and
conservation, organic farming, soil fertility management, and biodiversity
education tour guiding and eco entrepreneurship over a period of 6
months. The
objective of this project is to give young people an opportunity to explore the relationship between
biodiversity and agriculture, focusing on the importance of biodiversity to our
lives, in particular the production of food we sustenance of livelihoods.