Welcome to Project Urban Rain Garden

Project Urban Rain Garden

Project Urban Rain Garden was a Leadership Victoria class of 2006/07 Community Action Project, carried out by the team Today’s Stewards for Tomorrow in partnership with Victoria West Elementary School.

Each year, participants in Leadership Victoria form small teams that partner with a community organization to conceptualize and deliver a project of benefit to the community, a Community Action Project.

Let it rain.

The garden was officially opened on October 26, 2007. The day included garden tours given by Vic West Elementary leadership students, as well as a recognition ceremony for the great number of sponsors and community members involved in making the project a success.

What is Project Urban Rain Garden?

Project Urban Rain Garden is the reclamation of a paved urban playground at Victoria-West Elementary. A rain-garden is built in a low area in order to intercept and naturally filter storm water runoff. This rain-garden will provide students with the opportunity to explore issues of sustainability, eco-system degradation, and ways they can make a positive contribution to environmental improvement. Furthermore, the rain-garden will act as a community gathering area, and inspiration for other schools and communities.

Leadership Victoria

Leadership Victoria provides emerging decision makers with opportunities to develop and practice leadership skills. The program emphasizes practical experience and exposes participants to current regional issues as a context for skill building. The program helps participants become aware of the many issues facing our community and to develop leadership skills to prepare them to address those challenges. The program helps aspiring leaders to build upon their existing skills and offers them the opportunity to explore community issues and solutions with current leaders.

Final Report

Project Urban Rain Garden was a Leadership Victoria class of 2006/07 Community Action Project, carried our by the team Today's Stewards for Tomorrow in partnership with Victoria West Elementary School.

For our project, TSFT chose to focus on education youth about environmental sustainability and engaging them in sustanable solutions.

Read more about our project and learn how the children, the community and our team learned and built a garden together.