openfield

Riverbend neighborhood · Accra

Community verified

Give a courtyard back to its children.

Together, we can turn an overlooked patch of concrete into a living classroom—where 120 young people can grow food, learn outdoors, and gather with the community around them.

RF

Riverbend FoundationCommunity-led since 2019 · Identity verified

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Neighbors building timber planters in the future Riverbend learning garden
Field note · Week three Volunteers built the first six growing beds while preserving the courtyard’s three mature shade trees.

The difference this garden makes

A small plot. A lasting place to learn.

120
young learners welcomed every week
12
accessible growing beds planned
8,000 L
of rainwater storage capacity
40
neighbors already volunteering
A teacher and four children planting vegetables in a thriving community garden
What comes next Weekly garden sessions connect science lessons to soil, food, and patient care.

Measured in public. Build receipts, milestone evidence, and field updates are published throughout the project.

01 / Why this place

An empty courtyard can become something that keeps giving.

Behind Riverbend Library is a sunlit courtyard that has been closed for more than a decade. Families pass it every day. Teachers see a science room without walls. Neighbors see somewhere to grow herbs, share meals, and slow down together.

This campaign funds a safe, accessible learning garden with twelve growing beds, a rainwater system, shaded workshop tables, and a small greenhouse maintained by local volunteers.

Children understand a seed differently when they are the ones who put it in the soil.

Ama NarteyProject lead and Riverbend science teacher

Proof from the field

Built with the neighborhood, not just for it.

Each claim is paired with a practical record that supporters can revisit as the work moves forward.

Verified · 12 Aug

Courtyard access secured

Riverbend Library approved community use of the site through 2031.

Library stewardship agreement

Published · 20 Aug

Accessible plan reviewed

Local families and two mobility advocates reviewed the path and bed layout.

Annotated site plan

Counted · 31 Aug

Six beds installed

The first half of the growing beds were built by forty neighborhood volunteers.

Field count and build log

02 / The plan

Every cedi has a job.

Contributions are assigned to the build. Updates and receipts are published as each milestone is completed.

Working budgetGHS 250,000

42% Site and accessible paths
31% Beds, soil, and planting
17% Rainwater and greenhouse
10% Workshops and maintenance

  1. Site cleared with mature trees protected

    Complete

  2. Twelve accessible growing beds

    Six built · six in production
    In progress

  3. Rainwater system and shaded tables

    Materials reserved
    Up next

  4. First learner planting workshop

    Planned

03 / Field notes

See the work as it happens.

Short, dated accounts from the people doing the work—successes, changes, and setbacks included.

3 published
Build

The first growing beds are in

Six locally built timber beds are assembled and the accessible path has been marked out.

Help fund the next six
Community

Forty hands, one courtyard

Our first volunteer day cleared the site and preserved three mature shade trees.

Join the next chapter
Stewardship

The courtyard is ours to care for

Riverbend Library signed the long-term agreement that keeps this space in community hands.

See the public plan

Openfield and Riverbend Foundation are fictional demonstration entities.