Watch: Community crisis centre’s hard work blooms to life

The garden has blossomed into a successful vegetable business, which helps to raise funds for the centre.

The gardeners who had taken it upon themselves to feed the needy families in Reiger Park and surrounding areas. They are Harry Jacobs and Lorraine Olifant.

It appears the hard work by the team of volunteers at the Reiger Park Crisis Centre’s community vegetable garden has not gone unnoticed.

Shoprite is featuring the centre’s vegetable garden team on its truck fleet, putting the team and the community at large on the map as the trucks criss-cross the South African towns and countryside.

The vegetable garden at the centre feeds hundreds of families, including children from underprivileged families in the township.

The centre manager, Elaine Appies, said she and the team at the centre are over the moon about being featured on the trucks.

“I hope being featured on the trucks will send out a good and positive message about the good work carried out by the centre,” said Appies.

Read the full story in the Advertiser dated February 15.