Rising Flower will plant produce on four hectares
The produce will go towards a feeding scheme to feed the needy.
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH – Forest High School has given the Rising Flower Community Project permission to grow fruits and vegetables within the school’s unused four hectares of land.
The Rising Flower Community Project is an organisation founded in 2003 to provide food to the needy residents in the South of Johannesburg. The land will give the project an opportunity to grow fruits and vegetables within the premises of the school. The produce will go towards a feeding scheme for the school, Rising Flower’s own feeding scheme and will be sold cheaply to local residents.
“We are able to provide food to the Glenesk Old Age Home and the Bellavista Old Age Home through our feeding scheme. This land will help us a lot although we still need water, solar panels, rakes, and sponsorship from local businesses,” said Feroza Subjee, founding member and chairperson of Rising Flower.
The Department of Agriculture has already donated a tractor for the project. Miss Earth national finalist, Jessica van Rensburg, and Skills on Wheels are partners in the project.
“I am working on helping to secure sponsorship for this initiative because it will help the community and the school’s learners. I am also starting a Generation Earth Project with the learners to help clean the schoolyard and to keep the environment cleaner and safer,” said Jessica.
People, organisations and businesses wishing to help by volunteering for or sponsoring the project can phone Nobuhle Ndongeni on 079 429 4285 or Feroza Subjee on 073 187 7903.
