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In the intervention GROW, the Lebanese organizations Jibal and Buzuruna Juzuruna and the Danish NGO Zaher will work to support active citizenship & community engagement in underprivileged children through educational approaches in Learning Gardens (LGs) in the two communities Sa’adneyel and Zgharta, by building capacity in two community farms to (1) host LG spaces; and (2) deliver actionable knowledge on environmental & social justice to children - in supplement to the Lebanese education system. We will develop LGs as a new approach in Lebanon that offers open spaces for children to meet across age, gender and national and social backgrounds and link to nature and active participation by learning approaches in themes of agriculture, food sovereignty, social and environmental justice that include thinking, reflecting and discussing collectively about society, locally, regional and globally. A curricula and replicable LG model will be developed and published open-access.