Flowers4Food

Spring magic took place when flowers turned into food!

A group of graduate students at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) created the Flowers4Food project to raise money for a community garden to feed AIDS orphans in Lesotho as part of SHARED's “Seeds of Change” program.

From March 18th through April 3rd , faculty, staff, students, and visitors to the Boston Medical Center purchased spring plants with the pro-seeds going towards a community garden in Lesotho. The sutdents, Emily Bearse, Sarah Hurlburt, Colleen Longacre, Kristine Morin, and Shaheja Sitafalwalla, raised almost $1,000.00 as part of a project for BUSPH Professor Taryn Vian's course, “Financial Management for International Health”.  The students created and implemented the Flowers4Food project for SHARED. A special "Thank You" goes to a local flower wholesale business, Quilan Wasserman, for providing plants for the students to sell.

We are in the process of finding a suitable community garden project to receive the pro-seeds from the Flowers4Food project as well as other fund raising efforts in support of our "Seeds of Change" program funding community gardens in Lesotho.

Plesae continue to make some magic by donating to the “Seeds of Change” program to show your support for students' efforts. Click here for our "Seeds of Change" brochure.