Veggie gardens project for local schools with Willie Schmidt from Pasella! |
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Veggies with NO boundaries!
We realize that every year there is an increase in families that struggle to keep their heads above water due to an overwhelming increase in job loss and inflation. After hearing horrifying stories about scholars in our local area not being able to attend school because of financial problems, we decided to start a project by helping schools in the area. We want to start vegetable gardens and to distribute the vegetables to the struggling students and underprivileged households of the community.
The aim of this non-profit community project is to motivate school learners to plant and maintain these vegetable gardens. We hope by initiating this project that we can plant a “seed” of hope in the community which can later flourish and grow as we contribute to the community.
My name is Sanelle, my husband and I live in Langebaan. I believe that we can make a difference in relieving some of the financial strain off of the needy by working together with feeding programs. We honestly believe that this project is a small but creative way to get more people involved in our community and help change the lives of others.
Schools in the Saldanha / Vredenburg area were asked to voluntarily convert a piece of their school grounds into a vegetable garden. Mr Willie Schmidt, presenter of the garden section on SABC 2’s program: Pasella, was very excited to become involved in our project. According to him the project can definitely be successful and can help improve the quality of underprivileged communities.
In the month of August 2013 Willie and his team will visit the participating schools to prepare the soil for the vegetable gardens. During “garden week” the learners of each school will join in with the planting of the vegetable seeds and we
will provide all the necessary information to the students on how to grow their gardens and successfully grow their vegetables.
We believe that this project will motivate learners to get involved in a positive and wholesome activity, motivate them to lend a helping hand and to form a contribution to the community. The gardens will help scholars learn responsibility, will help build self-confidence and motivate them to work together in a team. Not only are the gardens a learning-school for them but the gardens will also enhance the scholar’s lives by knowing their caring hands changed the fate of others.
While visiting Pasella's gardening-guru, Mr Schmidt, he mentioned that it was astonishing to see learners, of all ages and races, excited about his garden-segment on Pasella – which comes to show that gardening knows no colour or age boundaries.
Knowing that all schools have limited budgets, we as organisers of the project would like to provide the resources to the schools which they may need to begin their gardens. We want to provide each school with compost, vegetable seeds, shovels, garden forks, rakes, a few hand spades, watering cans and gloves.
To make this a reality, we would like to ask your support by donating any of the above materials to the project.
A Veggie Garden golf tournament is being held on the 29th of August at the Langebaan Country Estate to raise funds in helping to provide these gardening resources to the schools. To help make this golf tournament successful, we will need sponsors to help with the establishing of the day, donations of any kind to provide items to be auctioned and we will need our community to support this tournament.
We hereby invite you to please get involved in our vegetable garden project. Help us to give these schools the opportunity to stand together and make a difference to our underprivileged communities. Let us join hands and walk this path together as we embark on the journey of helping those less fortunate than ourselves.
Sanelle & Anthony Naude
079 663 4021 / 082 805 6572
sjp.naude@gmail.com
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