Rural EC communities encouraged to start food gardens
Residents of Nombanjana village in Centane in the Eastern Cape say poor service delivery, poverty, unemployment and crime are a cause for concern in their area. The residents gathered at the village to receive government services from various departments.
The village, identified as one of the poorest in the area, is part of the Social Development Department’s anti-poverty initiative that seeks to address the issue of poverty in communities.“Our children have nothing. Even with education, they don’t get jobs because jobs are given to people with money. We want development here. We want farms so that we can have cattle, sheep and goats, everything that can help us”.
Another resident says “We live in hunger here. While the government helps us with social grants, we use it to pay for school fees, we use it in our homes and everything.” Rural communities believe agricultural programmes can play a huge role in poverty alleviation. Social Development MEC Bukiwe Fanta has also encouraged rural communities to have food gardens for food security.
“We are appealing to our people to do their food gardens so that the departments can help them with the material of ploughing. Also, we were here last year in the province where the Premier gave women a crop with a big tractor for the project of women who are doing ploughing projects around here. Hence we are saying today even other women that want to do something, we have given out an advert for proposals whatever they want to do, to make sure that they’ve got food to eat.
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