By Linda van Oudheusden | Marketing Manager
Dear, dear friends
It’s been more than a year since the world changed completely!
We are so conscious of the fact that you have had tremendous challenges to face during this time, yet you have continued supporting us. This is deeply close to our hearts and appreciated beyond measure.
Every day we realise just how deeply we have been affected, and in so many different ways.
The line outside our gates every morning is testimony to the hardships people are still enduring, and has put pressure on us to treat food sustainability as a matter of urgency.
Our vegetable gardens have produced wonderful crops, but the drought in our city has now reached a critical level. In fact, it is so severe now, that predictions are that one of our main supply dams will be completely empty by July this year.
You can imagine the consequences that will have all around – on households, businesses, the economy…
We have had periods where our rainwater tanks ran completely dry, leading to crop failures in the garden.
Fortunately, for the past 8 years, we have been working on expanding our rainwater harvesting systems. Year by hear we added more and more tanks and captured water from every surface we could! I am thrilled to report that this year, we have DOUBLED our storage capacity as we have just added a 300 cubic meter reservoir! It has been an incredible project as it will keep our gardens going even in the dry months.
At the moment 12 families are sustaining themselves from the vegetables grown here, and the rest is sent to our Nutrition Unit to help offset costs there. With between 400 and 1000 people coming through our gates daily, you can imagine the relief this brings!
Through your support, it has been possible to get food to those who need it most, in a time when it has been more needed than ever before.
We deeply value your trust in us, and hope that one day we may show you our Centre and all you have made possible in person!
With heartfelt gratitude from all the people in Missionvale.
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