By Daran Rehmeyer | Executive Director
Simpihwe lives in Maphiveni with her gogo (grandmother). This is a very impoverished area: there are no jobs and the plots are too small and the spoil too poor to farm. Every few week Simphiwe arrives at the Kudvumisa offices with a small pail of cracked marula kernels. She cracks these from marula nuts discarded each year after the marula buganu (beer) season.
Thokozani with Kudvumisa, inspects and weighs the kernels. He pays Simphiwe for the kernels she has brought.
With the money she makes, she is able to purchase the uniform, shoes and supplies for school and also help with food for her gogo and siblings.
Thokozani will press the kernels for oil and then package it for resale to people who make cosmetics.
This is one of the ways that Kudvumisa Foundation is working to combat poverty in this community! Your support helps make this possible.
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