Dibanisa Shortilisted for Beyond Sport Award
We are very proud to announce that our Dibanisa Project has been shortlisted for the Beyond Sport Awards: Sport for the Environment Award.
We are very proud to introduce our new group of Growing the Future Food Skills and Life Skills Training graduates! This is what they learnt over the past year:
All of our graduates are available for employment. For more information about any of them, please contact Viola Siyotywa (084 830 7489; growingtfuture@gmail.com).
Meet our Graduates!
Amanda Condoba
I learnt a lot about planting vegetables, as well as computers, beekeeping, preserves.
Anchelle Damon (EMPLOYED)
I have learnt a lot about permaculture, agriculture, making compost, different types of soil, worm leachate, natural fertilisers and companion planting, making three dimensional gardens, as beekeeping and animal husbandry.
Asanda Masela
I learnt how to plant without using chemical fertilisers, control pests by using organic sprays and companion planting as well as a lot about permaculture, designing and managing that space.
Nwabisa Masela
I learnt a lot about making healthy food from the garden and learnt how to plant vegetables, compost and how to make good soil. I love my work.
Nobubele Adonis
I have learnt a lot about computers, different vegetables, composting, and making my own sprays.
Noxolo Ntlongotya
I have learned about food production, animal husbandry, beekeeping and life skills.
Sinethemba Siqwepu
I have learnt many things during my year at Growing the Future including soil preparation for planting, computer skills and beekeeping.
Ziyanda Bayi
I have learnt many things including how to prepare soil, make compost and to make our own organic sprays as well as how to extract honey.
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During the month of April, three of our students were given the opportunity to visit the Eden Project in the United Kingdom. Our thanks to the British High Commission who made our trip possible!
The Green Futures students spent the day in Cape Town! The goal of the outing was to visit the Biodiversity Garden and also to see the Green Point Stadium.
To end off our first Dibanisa group for 2013, we went camping at Fynbos Retreat!
Dibanisa joined the Dyer Island Conservation Trust for a beach clean-up in Kleinbaai!
Last Friday, our Dibanisa group visited the Growing the Future project to learn more about sustainable, organic farming within a fynbos environment!