This programme aims to enable community based organisations (CBO’s) to provide a sustainable source of vegetables to the vulnerable patients and households in their communities. Excess crops are sold as a source of income generation for the community based organisations.
Due to a lack of food in many rural communities, many HIV and AIDS and TB patients default on their treatment. DOCKDA’s community based organisation (CBO) partners that serve as home based care providers identify patients that need a regular supply of healthy food, especially vegetables.
In order to help meet this need, DOCKDA developed the Food Security and Wellness Programme to help provide our CBO partners with the necessary resources and knowledge to create and maintain food gardens. The gardens provide a sustainable source of vegetables for the home based care providers’ sick and vulnerable patients as well as other malnourished people in their communities.
The programme offers
- capacity building by means of training, skills development and mentoring of local community based organisations (CBOs) in organic food gardening practices and water harvesting
- Micro-grant making of monetary funds and the provision of resources necessary to start a garden such as: seeds, trees, gardening tools, rain water tanks, water reticulation, shade cloth and fencing.
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