Capacity Building: Urban Farming and Gardening
Support Sustainable Agriculture
Summary
Individuals and teachers in poor communities are trained and supported to tackle hunger and environmental degradation by growing and replicating organic vegetable and indigenous teaching gardens.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project targets individuals (mostly unemployed women) living in South Africa’s poverty-stricken Cape Flats townships. The project also works with teachers at township schools. People living in the densely populated Cape Flats experience high unemployment (50-90%), hunger, environmental degradation, lack of education and skills, a high HIV/AIDS infection rate and limited resources. Teachers in impoverished schools lack relevant teaching resources, and desperately require further training.
Activities
Activities include urban agriculture and horticulture training, resource distribution, implementation of gardens, follow-up training and support. The schools program includes teacher training, on-ground implementation and materials development.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $9,534
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $51,835
Total Funding Goal: $61,370
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Hunger, unemployment and environmental degradation are visibly reduced as individuals establish sustainable vegetable and indigenous gardens. Education improves as learners are exposed to environmental education and sustainable Permaculture systems.
Project Message
“I enjoy producing food, and I like to teach people."
- Vatiswa Dunjana, UA fieldworker
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Rob Small
Resource Mobilisation Leader and Board Secretary
PO Box 44
Observatory
Cape Town, Western Cape 7935
South Africa
+21 3711653
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Abalimi Bezekhaya - Planters of the Home
PO Box 44 Observatory
Cape Town,
Western Cape
7935
South Africa
+27 21 371 1653
http://www.abalimi.org.za
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
South Africa
and can also be found under 
Climate Change (GG Green).
For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 28, 2004
Latest Update from the Field
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By Rob Small - organic micro-farmer, October 29, 2009 09:06 PM
Firstly, I have a huge thank you to five of you (remember I am not allowed to mention names here without your specific permission) who donated USD 305 in July and Aug 09. This makes nearly ZAR 3000 which provides about 30 micro-farmers with a full range of training and resource and marketing support for a whole year !!
Abalimi is becoming quite famous here in SA, because we have the full Development Chain in place for urban micro-farmers under impossible conditions. All the media attention is helping lots of other people get inspiration to get going. Its impossible to calculate that impact, but judging from the flood of incoming queries and floods of visitors, I think we are punching way above our weight.
See the attached articles to get an idea of the coverage we are getting!! Even Al Jazeera TV has been film our work!!
Thanks to you, our Global Giving Friends, once again!! Until next time! rob
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