Empty space soon to flourish as a vegetable garden
The vegetable garden will benefit the whole community.
Ex-drug users and youth church members are turning a nearby open veld into a vegetable garden.
The site now is called Tshedza Skills Development next to the Thandanani Drop Inn Centre.
Preparation of the food garden started in the morning and ended late on Saturday.
Thabo Kgotsi of Thandanani said they had decided to do something with the open veld that was not being used.
He said they would use it to benefit the whole community.
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“We have joined forces with youth members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Mamelodi East.”
Kgotsi said they cut all the overgrown grass and started preparing for the vegetable garden.
Musa Msiza from the church said this was one of the church’s community projects called Helping Hands.
He said they purpose of cleaning the yard was to prepare it for planting.
Kgotsi said they were planning to grow vegetables like spinach, onions, avocado trees and maize in their garden.
The vegetable garden would also help in developing skills in agriculture for ex-drug addicts and as well as keeping them busy at all times.
Kgotsi said they would call it the food garden though the name is not official yet.
The garden would support the Thandanani Drop Inn Centre, elderly people exercising at Rethabile Hall and the community at large, including the drugs addicts.
He invited people to take part in preparing for the food garden.
Food Lovers Menlyn and Big Save offered to sponsor the project with seeds.
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