Nature’s Valley Community Tree Planting Initiative – Kleinkranz, Wilderness
We were given the opportunity to plant out more indigenous trees and fruit trees at Nature’s Valley over the past 6 months. The extended sponsorship of these additional trees has gone a far way towards helping the Nature’s Valley Community Leadership’s attain their goal of greening up the community playing fields and planting out a fruit tree per household.
For this we say thank you WMO – Youth Africa Chapter for making this possible!
The school is located in Rosemoor in George and has approx. 600 learners (Grade 1 to Grade 7). Hibernia Primary is a Section 21 primary school and is allocated some level of funding by the Department of Education. The school itself is responsible for ordering stationery, textbooks, paying utilities (water and lights accounts) and undertaking their own maintenance. It is a no-fee institution and the school is reliant on outside funding to cover its running costs. The majority of these learners feed through to George High School as the primary Secondary School option for the communities’ schoolgoers.
There is a Groundsman who is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the grounds. He will be responsible for the maintenance and care of the indigenous trees that have been planted around the sportsfield in collaboration with the Grade 6 and 7 learners.
We say thank you WMO – Youth Africa Chapter for making this possible!
This little pre-primary school is situated in Rosemoor, George and is managed by George Child and Family Welfare (NPO). The creche accommodates 80 young children between the ages of 3 and 5. Under the management of the George Child and Family Welfare non-profit, it relies on donations and sponsorships to assist with the upkeep of the school.
The pre-school has a contained area behind the school that has been set up as a food garden. WMO sponsored a number of indigenous trees and fruit trees to the garden that we planted out with these young school goers. The garden will be maintained by a garden service and the learners will be involved in watering the trees with their class teacher.
Thank you World Memon Organisation for your ongoing support and investment in the health of our youth and your contributions to their food garden.
We have been donating a few indigenous trees to this small informal community in Nature’s Valley over the past year. The community comprises 223 members of which 133 are adults (22 years plus) and 90 (below the age of 21). The leadership committee of the community have recently established the Kleinkranz Nature’s Valley Community Forum (NPC) in order to formalise and facilitate funding for projects geared towards the socio-eco-environmental development and upliftment of the community.
A number of projects to uplift the community are on the go, initiated by the Community Leadership. This includes a library, playgrounds, netball field, a sportsfield, and a station for the mobile clinic. A small community food garden was set up 2 years ago by one of the Senior members of the community (Antony), who supervises and runs the garden and apportions the harvest to the families in the community most in need. His intention is to create a station for composting and earthworm farming.The intention is to eventually plant a fruit tree in each household.
Thank you World Memon Organisation for your ongoing support and investment in our youth, and facilitating the awareness on the importance of trees and our natural environment in our own health and well-being!
Kretzenshoop Primary is located in Blanco, in George. The school has approximately 800 learners. This established little school is well-maintained on the limited funds provided by the Department of Education and is a public primary school. The school is a Section 21 school, meaning it is allocated limited finances by the Department (for staff salaries) and is responsible for ordering stationery, text books, paying water and lights accounts, and undertaking their own maintenance under ABCDE functions, and is classified under quintile 1 as a no-fee institution.
There is a small food kitchen that can feed approximately 400 learners daily which is supported by a newly created small-scale vegetable garden (currently not sufficient to supply the food kitchen with all of its requirements). The majority of the learners attending do not have a pre-packed lunch as they reside in a low-income bracket community in which the school is situated.
There is a groundsman who currently handles the general maintenance of the school grounds, and in collaboration with the learners’ maintenance schedule, will handle the overall management of the sponsored trees.
Thank you World Memon Organisation for your ongoing support and investment in the health of our youth, and educating them on the importance of trees and our natural environment in our own health and well-being!
The school is located in Thembalethu in George and has approximately 1300 learners (Grade 8 to Grade 12). As a no-fee institution, funds for maintenance and development are limited. Community fundraising to bring in additional funding for maintenance, upkeep, etc. is essential but very limited from within the community therefore the school relies on external sponsors for assistance.
There is an existing food kitchen that feeds all the learners daily. The school has recently been subsidised a small vegetable garden that is well maintained by the caretaker. Ongoing maintenance and supply of vegetable seedlings/seeds will be required to keep the garden going. Limited composting of garden refuse is done on site.
There is a small team of ground staff who are responsible for the general maintenance of the school grounds and who have designated responsibilities for the upkeep of the grounds.
A limited number of water tanks are installed on the school grounds – providing adequate water storage and accessible watering points around the school for the watering of the trees.
Thank you World Memon Organisation for your ongoing support and investment in the health of our youth, and educating them on the importance of trees and our natural environment in our own health and well-being.
Imizamo Yethu High School is located in Thembalethu, George and has approximately 1500 learners (Grade 8 to Grade 12). The school is a public secondary school and a no-fee institution and relies on additional funds from external sources outside of the Dpt. of Education, since the latter provides limited funding.
The school is collaborating with Heatherlands High School to create a “Shared Responsibility and Use” of upgrading the sports field, including planting trees to create shaded areas.
There is an existing food kitchen that feeds all the learners. The school, as part of the new Agricultural Sciences recently introduced to Grade 8, has started an enclosed vegetable garden to feed the school kitchen, as part of the Agricultural Sciences curriculum.
There is a small team of ground-staff who are responsible for the general maintenance of the school grounds and a dedicated gardener for the fruit & vegetable garden, all of whom are available to oversee the trees in collaboration with the Agricultural Sciences classes.
Thank you, World Memon Organisation, for your ongoing support and investment in the health of our youth and educating them on the importance of trees and our natural environment in our own health and well-being.
The school is located in LeVallia, George, and was established in 1947. It currently has approximately 1600 learners (Grade 8 to Grade 12) with a school hostel which provides student accommodation for a limited number of learners. The school is a public secondary school, is a no-fee institution and relies on the limited funds provided by the Department of Education. Community fundraising to bring in additional income into the school is required but opportunities to do so are limited from within the community itself.
There are a number of existing trees around the school grounds but many of them are non-indigenous trees. A number of the latter have been chopped down and the trunks used as seating for the learners around the school grounds.
There is an existing food kitchen that feeds all the learners daily, including meals for the hostel residents. The school is in the process of creating an area near the hostel for a fruit garden. The garden is in the early stages of design and its establishment is in process and in line with the Agricultural Sciences curriculum.
There is a small team of ground-staff who are responsible for the general maintenance of the school grounds and who are available to oversee the trees in collaboration with the Agricultural Sciences learners.
Thank you World Memon Organisation for your ongoing support and investment in our youth and facilitating the awareness on the importance of trees and our natural environment in our own health and well-being.
Jonga High School is located in Thembalethu, George, and has approximately 1400 learners (Grade 8 to Grade 12). The school has been approved additional classrooms on adjacent land offered as a land swap by the Department of Agriculture in order to accommodate the increasing numbers of learners completing Grade 7 (coming out of the local primary schools).
The school is a public and secondary school and while it is allocated some funding by the Education Department, it remains responsible for ordering stationery, textbooks, paying water and lights accounts and undertaking their own maintenance. Community fundraising to bring in additional income into the school is limited given the lowered socio-economic bracket within which the community falls. There is an existing food kitchen that feeds the learners daily and an enclosed space has been created for a vegetable garden. The intention of the school is to invest in establishing and maintaining the vegetable and fruit garden so that it can support the needs of the school kitchen.
The groundsman who currently handles the general maintenance of the school grounds will oversee the trees in collaboration with the staff and learners who participated in the activity.
Thank you World Memon Organisation for your ongoing support and investment in the health of our youth and educating them on the importance of trees and our natural environment in our own health and well-being.
The school is located in Pacaltsdorp in George, and has approximately 1500 learners (Grade 8 to Grade 12). There is a hostel on the school grounds providing limited number of student accommodation.
There is an existing food kitchen that feeds all the learners daily, including meals for the hostel residents. The intention of Pacaltsdorp High School going forward is to re-invest in the existing vegetable garden which has fallen into disarray as a result of a lack of project funding to continue with the maintenance and upkeep thereof. There is capacity on the school grounds to grow food gardens capable of feeding the school goers as well as the 3-meals-a-day feeding requirements of the hostel residents.
A small team of ground-staff will oversee the trees in collaboration with the school members who are part of The Green Club.
Thank you World Memon Organisation for your ongoing support and investment in the health of our youth and educating them on the importance of trees and our natural environment in our own health and well-being.
