"Our Community Working Together"
"In the winter of 2003 the number of hungry people begging in the streets and asking for food door to door motivated a group of women in Riebeek Kasteel to begin a soup kitchen. It soon became clear, however, that more help was needed as many people were being turned away when the pots ran empty.
A piece of land was identified as a good site and in 2004 Quivertree Puplications (a Cape Town publishing company) undertook to pay for the rental from Propnet of a hectare (10 160m2) of land. Now we could begin growing our own food and getting the community more involved in finding solutions to the problem of poverty and poor nutrition.
At present our Garden consists of a Food and Nutrition Centre supported by the Department of Social Development providing up to 150 meals a day, a Communal Kitchen Garden providing vegetables to supplement those donated for distribution, a Childrens’ Vegetable Garden, a venue for a weekly environmental educational session for a youth group of 60 children, a weekly job creation project and 5 privately managed allotment vegetable gardens.
The Project is run by a committee of 4 women in consultation with the other members of the community which it is assisting."
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