About the Project

Gardens4All

The GARDENS4ALL project aims to promote the social inclusion of migrants and refugees in their host communities through community gardening. With this project, we intend to determine that community gardens are extremely important for the mental and physical regeneration of migrants and refugees, and that the implementation of these gardens can achieve an efficient reduction of health and security costs in urban communities and neighborhoods.

The GARDENS4ALL proposes a wide range of activities that will be implemented throughout the 24-month project lifecycle that will converge in a Community Gardening Training Course, In-Service Training Programme, Handbook of Therapeutical Gardening and Horticulture and Toolkit of Video Case Studies on Good Practices of Community Gardening. The result of the project will include: To encourage community gardening as an activity that boosts physical and mental health for migrants and refugees, to support the design and development of sustainable community gardens in their host communities, to strengthen community bonds and intercultural relationships, to better understand the connection of community gardens and social inclusion, to promote healthy behaviours, self-confidence and self-esteem of migrants and refugees, contribute to mental health promotion and awareness.

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Direct and Indirect Impact on the following objectives

The project is intended to have direct and indirect impact on the following objective:

014o migrants and refugees will complete the Training Course

0A minimum of 4oo target-group representatives will be enrolled in the project website and social media channels

021 adult and community educators and social workers will be involved in the development of the Toolkit

014 adult and community educators and social workers will attend the LTTA

028 adult and community educators and social workers will be involved in the Local Working Groups

04o target-group representatives, stakeholders and policy-makers will attend the Final Multiplier event.

012o target-group representatives will attend the GARDENSA4ALL Community Events

-Migrants and refugees will build more robust community networks, Reduce social isolation, Increase active citizenship, and civic engagement; 

-Benefit from the acquisition of valuable skills in garden planning, food production and business; Benefit form the social benefits of community gardening in terms of social interaction, participation, and knowledge sharing with the host communities; Increase the adoption of a healthier lifestyle

-Adult, community educators and social workers will benefit from a unique training approach to developing community gardening programmes for the social inclusion of migrants and refugees in their host communities;

-Apply garden-based education methods to boost the social inclusion of migrants and refugees Benefit from the opportunity to learn and share knowledge about gardening and nature.

About the Project

Humans thrive on frequent contact and interaction between one another, and it is inconceivable to live without communities and neighborhoods is to integrate families and foster dimensions of support and connectedness. The same is true for refugee communities despite the cultural differences.

Therefore, this project will support the development and implementation of a tailor-made educational proposal that will engage migrants, refugees, local communities and professionals from the social work and adult education field in the awareness raising of healthier behaviors, on the protection of the environmental and in intercultural exchange.

Despite community gardening has become a trend in therapeutical programmes with hard-to-reach communities in the USA and United Kingdom, there is still a long way to grasp and communicate the impact of these projects and models of social and therapeutic intervention through community gardening. The effort to quantify the social effects obtained in such programmes are essential to ensure continuity or new initiatives. Thus, GARDENS4ALL consortium will provide a systematic evaluation of the project results throughout the project lifecycle and we will involve the main target- groups in such evaluation.”

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