Rural Skills Centre (supported by the government’s Community Work Programme) focuses on developing the abilities of participants to solve everyday problems that cause suffering in our community, such as installing and fixing guttering for rain water harvesting, protecting mud huts from the summer rains, carpentry, amongst a range of other life-improving skills.
Farmers in regions with hilly typography have few accessible options other than the back-breaking option of carrying water on their heads. See our informational video on a groundbreaking solution to the problem: a perfect, cheap water pump that works and is easy to find.
Our Healthy Livestock Project makes much needed anti-parasite and vitamin dosing available for the livestock in the area. The project is self-sustaining as community members pay for the medicines themselves. Anecdotally, farmers claim that breeding rates have increased significantly – we will get more accurate statistics early next year. We also received valuable input from Hannes Rabe, an … READ MORE
Masilime Ngqo! means :”Let us Farm Well!” And they are certainly doing so! Seedling and input sales continue to be good. Excess seedlings are sold at the Tafalehashi pension point and Tafalehashi Store sold 1000 seedlings within minutes. The Centre had visits from two different Community Based Organisation from the East London region eager to … READ MORE
The heritage of our region and people is closely tied to the farming of livestock. In South Africa as a whole, the poorest communal areas are home to half the cattle in the country worth almost R50 billion. Yet low birth rates and high death rates mean that communities like ours are not seeing their … READ MORE
In February this year, the BI began an exciting new project with support from the German fair trade company Lemonaid & ChariTea. The aim of this project is to be a resource in our community where farmers can get advice and the necessary to equipment and inputs to significantly boost farming in our area over … READ MORE
