Tshwaraganang disability centre grows vegetable garden
With the assistance and guidance of Blue Green South Africa (BGSA), Tshwaraganang Disability Centre has started a vegetable garden on the premises.
With the assistance and guidance of Blue Green South Africa (BGSA), Tshwaraganang Disability Centre has started a vegetable garden on the premises.
Despite their disabilities, the learners of the centre worked with the members of BGSA to lay the garden out, prepare the soil and plant the seeds.
The centre will sell some of the fresh produce for an income, which will assist with the institution’s expenses. The rest will be for the learners’ consumption.
Maki Mtayi, the manager of Tshwaraganang Disability Centre, is ecstatic about the project. She believes it will help not only the centre but the learners too. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the price of many goods has gone up. The garden will help to improve food sustainability within the institution. Mtayi says most of the learners work very well with their hands and she hopes it will better their skills.
The learners will get seeds to take home, where they are encouraged to create and maintain gardens of their own.
Jerry Mngxitama, the founder of BGSA, hopes the new skills will help boost their confidence and food security. He added that the garden was laid out in such a way that persons in wheelchairs will be able to move around freely.
