Capacity Building: Urban Farming and Gardening

Summary

Individuals in poor communities are trained and supported to tackle hunger and environmental degradation by growing and replicating organic vegetable gardens with indigenous floral windbreaks & herbs progress report read updates from the field

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	£8 - Supports one micro-farmer with all necessary essential services, to develop his/her micro-farm sustain-ably for one month
	£12 - Plants one tree in a disadvantaged township, and includes training and follow-up.
	£26 - Establishes one new township vegetable garden, and includes training, resources and follow-up.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The project targets individuals (mostly unemployed women) living in South Africa’s poverty-stricken Cape Flats townships. People living in the densely populated Cape Flats experience high unemployment (50-90%), hunger, environmental degradation, lack of education and skills, a high HIV/AIDS infection rate and limited resources.

Activities

Activities include urban agriculture and horticulture training, resource distribution, implementation of gardens, follow-up training and support.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £14,973
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £16,268
Total Funding Goal: £31,241

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Hunger, unemployment and environmental degradation are visibly reduced as individuals establish sustainable vegetable and indigenous gardens.

Project Message

“I enjoy producing food, and I like to teach people."
- Vatiswa Dunjana, UA fieldworker

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Rob Small,
Resource Mobilisation Leader and Board Secretary
PO Box 44
Observatory
Cape Town, Western Cape 7935
South Africa
+21 3711653
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public (nominal)

Organisation

Abalimi Bezekhaya - Planters of the Home
PO Box 44 Observatory
Cape Town, Western Cape 7935
South Africa
+27 21 371 1653
http://www.abalimi.org.za

Learn more about Abalimi Bezekhaya - Planters of the Home and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South Africa and can also be found under Climate Change.

For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 02, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 28, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Friends Newsletter # 38 - focus on youth

By micro-farmer rob - family micro-farmer, February 02, 2012 11:41 AM

Greetings to you in a sparkling new 2012!!

It is definitely the "wake up!" year, I think. No more can we continue in the aggressive, bully-boy, winner takes all manner which is continually exampled (while often saying the opposite) by our world political and business "leaders".

But we don't need stupid violent people's revolutions either, destroying everything and forcing us backwards.

So thank you , again, for your ongoing and generous help and interest in "the Gentle Revolution" - see my previous posting for more info.

Please take a look at our latest Friends Newsletter # 38 on www.abalimi.org.za . It focuses on how the youth are really starting to come in to the micro-farming movement.

Attachments:

Abalimi Friends newsletter # 38 (PDF)

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