How it all began!

A few years ago I met Milly Jarvis and Marianne Belt, they told me about a project they were starting at the Riversands Primary school in Diepsloot( a settlement NW of Johannesburg South Africa).
They wanted to start a feeding kitchen to give the 750 children at the school one hot meal every day.
There was an old farm building at the school that we could use, late 2005 they had renovated the building with the help of Lee-Ann Manas and many sponsers.

At the same time we started a vegetable garden to grow the veggies for the meals, we met with many many problems the first 2 years , the biggest one being the rain washing the soil away
during the raining season in South Africa.
The piece of land next to the kitchen, where we are growing the vegetables is lying on sloping ground and each year the rain would wash the ground away during the summer rains and during the dry winters we would carry buckets of water up and down the hill to water all the vegetable beds.

We had no sponsers yet and were just struggling on, but it felt as if we had to start each year all over again.

Till August 2005 when I took a friend of mine, Rose Brockhus to see the project, she had a plan, for her 50th birthday she asked her friends and family to sponsor the vegetable garden and wow they did!!!
With the start of 2006 we had enough money to built 3 walls for the first 3 terraces and to put a bottle irrigation in+ lots of compost and new seeds.