SOIL FOR LIFE
Soil for Life assists communities to overcome poverty, hunger and unemployment through environmentally sound agricultural development. Their mission is to "educate and train people in organic food gardening using water-wise, low-cost, environmentally-friendly technologies in order to grow a lot of food in small spaces".
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MMEP
The vision of the Midland Meander Education Association is ‘to support schools in nurturing capable, confident, curious thinking children who are active citizens contributing positively to their communities and the environment.’
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SEEDSEED (Schools Environmental Education and Development) is an NGO based in the Cape Town area with a mission to apply permaculture to:
‘Engage schools and communities to increase food security, provide alternative learning environments and develop career/economic opportunities’ As well as their programme of school gardens, they run demonstration projects, produce and publish curriculum material for schools, manuals and books, and develop and run accredited permaculture training. Their work, originally in the Cape Flats alone, is now extending nationwide throughout South Africa. |
ECO ACCESS
Eco-Access was launched by blind environmentalist, Rob Filmer, and his wife, Julie, in 1994.
Eco-Access’s objective has been to use access to the natural environment as a medium to empower both disabled and non-disabled people, specifically children, by allowing them to participate in various environmental interactive learning processes, including food gardens. |
RHODES PARK
Edith Mvelase the librarian at Rhodes Park Library in Kensington Johannesburg started a vegetable garden in the library grounds in order to provide food for people at a hospice in nearby Jeppestown.
With the help of sponsorship and from volunteers the garden has remained productive for some years. Thatu has been happy to be able to assist Edith’s efforts with a donation from the Small Grants Fund and we remain in touch with her. |
LOTUS GARDENS
Lotus Gardens School’s food garden was the first project Thatu funded. This was along with St Lukes School in London which had helped Lotus Gardens in other ways. Community members developed two food gardens with the assistance of John Nzira of Ukuvuna, and Thatu’s funding. Initial productivity however faded, along with members’ enthusiasm. In spite of new ‘green shoots’ developing, Thatu Trustees decided that we could not fund the garden further.
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