Vegetable handout to the needy

Residents from Gugulethu/Everest received vegetables from the Transnet Community Centre on Friday.

The vegetable project is managed by Transnet as part of its community project.

The Transnet site project manager Peter Gaolatlhe says the project is doing well.

“We train community workers, giving them the skills of entrepreneurship by giving them seed and a space at the centre where they can plant vegetables.”

Even the chemicals to protect the vegetables from insects are provided.

He says it is important to plough back into the community, therefore these trained community members can start their own vegetable garden where they live.

These workers are trained for a year and their task is to look after the vegetables.

Peter is impressed with the work done and how clean and good the vegetables look.

Last Thursday some of the community members, who has been appointed by these workers, arrived to receive tomatoes.

Peter says as the vegetables get harvested the area are being cleaned and new seed is being planted.