The HSBC Water Programme – Catch the Drop has joined hands with Nature Trust Malta to support We Eat Responsibly, an EU project which is being run in nine European countries with a food consumption theme.

A student from Birżebbuġa Primary describes the food she prepared to a bank official. Top: Dingli Primary students next to the school’s water tank.

The water conservation campaign is financing the projects of four schools, which are taking steps to reengineer food production and consumption under the Nature Trust programme.

The supported schools are Dingli Primary School, where a new water tank will now collect rain water and irrigate crops; Birkirkara Middle School, where two rainwater collecting tanks will be used for irrigation; St Michael School in Santa Venera, where a new efficient irrigation system will be installed in the garden; and Birżebbuġa Primary School, which will be helped to collect rainwater to irrigate vegetables planted by pupils.

We Eat Responsibly was launched in 2015 with the active participation of 14 schools.