The Garden of Skills welcomes a new recruit in charge of the kitchen where she will be in charge of developing the nutrition programme of Designing Hope, using in particular the educational sheets prepared by the association. Indeed, the garden … Read More
The winter in southern Africa is particularly dry, making it an ideal time to reinforce the infrastructure before the rains start. The Malanti Garden of Skills is located on a hillside, and the grass covering the path is particularly slippery … Read More
The team from Wendy Lane, the company that built the wooden houses on the Garden of Skills site, came to install a chicken coop. This henhouse is designed on the principle of an enclosure separated into 2 plots, used in … Read More
The Garden of Skills is developing into a training centre, including nutrition training, based on a model of food self-sufficiency. To this end, posters containing valuable nutritional information have been put up on the walls of the kitchen. In addition, … Read More
The local Fundzisa Live team, with Lydia, leader of the Malanti community, and the Designing Hope team.
The access road and the construction of the Garden of Skills are now complete and everything is ready for the activities of the centre: A 100m2 workshop, an open kitchen, a sanitary block, the director’s house, the volunteers’ house, a … Read More
In order to enhance the value of vegetables from the garden and encourage women to transform them into nutrient-rich recipes, the kitchen was designed as an open space, which can accommodate groups in training at the centre. 12 thematic panels … Read More
For almost a year, the Fundzisa Live association has been recruiting men and women from the Malanti community to participate in the setting up of the garden of skills. While the workshop has just been set up, it is now … Read More
The skills garden workshop is built! Now the electrical equipment and connections have to be installed, and the sewing machines can be set up to train the women of Malanti in sewing. Indeed, the workshop was previously in Piggs Peak, … Read More
Now that the foundations are in place, Wendy Lane’s technicians are hard at work setting up the sewing workshop and training center for the Garden of Skills. The 15m by 6m structure has been prepared in the workshop for assembly … Read More
