By Daran Rehmeyer | Executive Director
Creating jobs, employment, and sustainable futures requires a lot of work educating the community to look for economic opportunities. Thokozane takes many hours each week in meeting with potential beneficiaries of Kudvumisa’s development projects. The projects are focused on finding local resources that have little or no local value and making the connection to markets where it does have value. A big part of the problem is that most people in the isolated and rural communities that Kudvumisa works in do not recognize the vales of the resources around them.
Thokozane, our community development community liaison spends a lot of his time educating in the community about the resources they could be taking advantage of. Recently, he spent several days in the community of Macetuka speaking to women there about marula nuts. This is marula season and a fresh batch of the fruit is falling. Much of the fruit lays ungathered and simply rots while some is gathered to make bugano (fermented marula juice). In almost all cases the nut is simply left or discarded. This is a prime opportunity for these women who live in an isolated area to make a living to help support their families.
Thokozane works with these women to help them get started and makes sure any cracked nuts are bought quickly so the women see the value and potential in their work.
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