Partnership to end hunger in the households
Lead Change Development and the Sage Foundation established a food garden as a measure to fight poverty.
Poverty is a sad reality which affects a number of households in the townships. Lead Change Development and the Sage Foundation established a food garden as a measure to fight poverty and eradicate hunger in the townships.
Last Friday, the organisation hosted a food gardening initiative at the Kopanong Community Centre aimed at supplementing grocery and food supply to a number of impoverished households.
“We have realised that most of the students enrolled for computer courses at the centre are from indigent backgrounds and some attend their classes without having any lunch.
“With the economic meltdown and high unemployment rates, their families are largely dependent on social and disability grants for survival.
“We partnered with the Sage Foundation and came up with this idea of a food gardening initiative,” said Lead Change Development head of marketing and director Mfundo Sithole.
He said the vegetables harvested from these food gardens would enable members to supplement their monthly groceries. Sithole said that this would help to ease the burden on their students’ respective households.
“We have realised that our members’ monthly disability grants are not enough to address most of their needs in their respective families. This is an ideal intervention that would end hunger and help alleviate some of the social ills brought about by poverty in our community.
“The money they save could easily be redirected to some of their needs and poverty will be defeated in most of their households,” said Sithole.
Sage Foundation Promotional director, Joanne Van der Walt said they wanted to get their employees out in the community to do voluntary work in the community during Nelson Mandela Month.
She said, “We decided to partner work with Lead Foundation. We create sustainable food gardens and plant the right vegetables for them.
“We are working with a number of organisations throughout the continent and this is our first time partnering with Lead Change Development.
“We will also help them with drafting their Curriculum Vitae and assisting with interviewing skills to help them secure employment opportunities,” said Van der Walt.
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