| | Southern Africa January 2009 - Kalahari Garden Project
The Kalahari Garden Project is happy to report that we have a new partner for our project in the Aminuis Corridor, Omaheke region, Namibia. GardenAfrica have recently joined us and will be supporting capacity building among the beneficiaries and partner NGOs. GardenAfrica is a UK based charity whose work is focused in Southern Africa. There they establish productive organic training gardens in schools, hospitals and clinics, growing nutritious food and medicinal plants. These gardens offer practical and effective solutions for building community health and livelihoods, ensuring the continuation of vital botanical and horticultural knowledge through to the next generation. http://www.gardenafrica.org.uk/garden_africa_charity_namibia.htm February 2009 -New home gardens to be developed at Bravo, a San resettlement farm in the Kavango region of Namibia
At the end of January, Kalahari Garden Project volunteer Simon Stronach was asked by GDF's Namibian partner, Komeho Namibia, to travel to Bravo, a San resettlement farm in Kavango Region, Northern Namibia. The purpose of the trip was to ascertain the feasibility of building household gardens there for the resident San community. Komeho feels that the success of the gardens built for the San in the Aminuis Corridor (under the Kalahari Garden Project) could be repeated at Bravo, using the existing project as a model for the new gardens. Simon spent the majority of the visit surveying the site, taking GPS positions of all the houses and existing infrastructure, which will be used to create a detailed map of Bravo to plan and devise the new water infrastructure and the positions of the new gardens. Komeho manager John Moremi and San community mobilisers, Johnny and Johannes, were present to assist the survey of the site and to introduce Simon to community.
Read more about the Kalahari Garden Project at : Community & Conservation in South Africa, KGP's blog , or download january newsletter , April newsletter, July newsletter and the 2007-08 annual report Urgent Appeal : DONATIONS FOR IMPROVED WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
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