Vegetable gardens keep residents of Chennai Corporation shelters occupied during lockdown

Terrace garden kits were provided to all the 55 shelters run by the Greater Chennai Corporation by the Chennai Resilience Centre; greens and vegetables are now flourishing at the gardens

For years, children at the Greater Chennai Corporation shelter opposite the Kodungaiyur dumpyard had seen only flies and mosquitoes buzzing around outside. However, after vegetable gardens were started at the shelter during the lockdown, the children now get to see colourful butterflies. Terrace garden kits were provided to all the 55 shelters run by the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), by the Chennai Resilience Centre, supported by the Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre, along with The Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC).