Creating a sustainable garden to feed the Eldos community.
Meraki project aims to feed the community.
With unemployment on the rise, many residents struggle to have a plate of food every night. Since the beginning of February, the Meraki Project has been making sure that the children from the community will get fed from their vegetable garden for hopefully years to come.
The project is based in the yard of Eldorado Park Secondary and has about ten volunteers from the community who have been taught all the necessary skills of gardening from a non-profit organisation (NPO) called Enviromentorz.
According to Brynmor Coolman who is the founder of Enviromentorz, the word ‘Meraki’ means putting your soul, creativity, and love into something, and thus it’s a corporate social investment project made up of stakeholders and the non-profit organisations in the community.
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“It’s a programme that will benefit the community, especially for the young ones. We are trying to make it a sustainable project so that it will be here for a long time. It’s about giving back to the community and teaching the community about food sustainability, our volunteers have been trained on-site and they have all gained skills,” shared Coolman.
It was also mentioned that one of the biggest challenges that the team had was getting volunteers to help out with the project.
Coolman would like to invite anyone who is willing to help out with the project to join the group on a Monday morning from 9 am at the school.
At the moment the vegetables are still growing and the NPO is looking forward to the harvest where they will then use these vegetables to feed the children in the community.
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