Food Security South Africa Project #714

Micro-farming among the poor Cape Town

by Abalimi Bezekhaya - Planters of the Home

Project Report | Jul 24, 2019
Training is important

By Rob Small | resource mobilisation support to Abalimi

Dear Global Giving Friends,

Our three day training course on basic home gardening is steadily expanding the network of home gardeners in the Cape Flats - every two weeks. Food security remains a pressing issue in Cape Town‘s informal settlements and townships. Growing own food at home or at community gardens is a push toward self-sufficiency.

Included here are two pics showing graduates holding their certificates of completon from our three day training course. As you will see they are made up of both men and women and even young people , all of whom either have no employment or who (in the case of the young folks) come from households where no one is employed. Unemployment rates in the areas where we work are in the region of 30%-40% and it is such people who we target.

In South Africa there are social grants (child support grants and pensioner grants) but these are only small amounts of money - about 86 USD per month/person which does not go very far in a household of an average of 5 people, even if there are more than one people getting these grants.

So learning how to garden becomes an important survival strategy for such people.

Your help continues to allow us to offer our training to the unemployed.

To those of you who have donated once off and also to our loyal repeat donors,

Thank you for your support!

Best regards

Rob Small

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The Farmers, a garden example and their produce

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