South Africa: Urban food garden in Bellville: transforming lives through sustainable agriculture and job creation
Many people who work at the urban food garden come from a drug-related background, and it helped keep them busy and gave them hope, said Muller.
By Abigail Baard
Daily Meverick
Dec 17, 2024
Excerpt:
Not only does The Life Changing Garden provide food for those in the area, it also provides employment opportunities to those who were previously homeless.
Langanani Muleyo, the site manager, found himself homeless after moving from Johannesburg to Cape Town to find work. Muleyo is originally from Limpopo, but there was no work there, he said.
“When you finish your matric you are hopeless,” he said. After school most people left Limpopo to look for a job.
After moving to Johannesburg in search of employment, things didn’t work out for Muleyo so he decided to move to Cape Town to start something new. He didn’t know anyone in Cape Town and eventually ended up at the MES shelter in Bellville.
“I was literally homeless,” he said. He was scared when he had to sleep on the street alone, Muleyo recalled.
After he started working at God Restores our World (Grow) and the Greater Tygerberg Partnership began to see potential in him, he was eventually appointed as supervisor over the partnership’s waste to resources centre, he said.
The Greater Tygerberg Partnership’s urban food garden, organic waste programme and composting department all developed from the waste to resources centre, which hires waste pickers to collect recycling material from businesses in the area.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/south-africa-urban-food-garden-in-bellville-transforming-lives-through-sustainable-agriculture-and-job-creation/
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