A statue for our vegetable garden.

Marleen Buscop, my friend in Holland who puts a lot of her time and effort into finding sponsors for our vegetable garden, made this beautiful statue for our project. It was sold for 250 Euros , what wil go towards the vegetable garden.

Thank you Marleen not only for this statue but also for your ongoing work to find new sponsors and tell people in Holland about our project here.

A Big Thank You to all our volunteers.

A big thank you to all our ladies , with out their hard work our vegetable garden would still be a bare dry piece of land full of weeds,
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK. !!



Our soil is full of stones, the ladies dig the beds with piks and spades and sift the sand so that all the stones will be out of the soil, it is hard work especially in the winter when the ground is hard and dry, this winter they digged all the beds in the 2 new terraces.

Is there anybody who can give me advise how to tackle the problem of overflowing water tanks, is there a way to stop the pump when the water tank is full?????

We "pay" our ladies with secondhand clothes, if there is anybody who wants to donate clothes for our ladies please contact me.

Thank you to our sponsors and helpers.

Thank you Grant for putting in the irrigation in our new terraces and thanks to Nic and Aidon , Mabel and Sigizele for building the new compost heaps with the pellets from Lovell Industries, thank so much Allison it looks so much neater with the pellets.

This month we received the money from the Protestante Kerk in Leidschendam in Holland, they collected this during the Easter period. Thank you so much, this will make it possible for us to plant the whole garden this summer, we can put in many truckloads of compost, what our soil desperately needs, it will pay for all our summer seeds, we need new garden tools, spades, forks, hand tools etc.
Thank you all !!!!! You all helped to feed 750 children for this year.

It is already 2 months ago that we let you know what is happening at Riversands.

In May we had a problem with the pump of the borehole at the school,( we dont have municipal water here only one borehole) the pump broke and then ofcourse there is no water, can you imagine 750 children in the school and there is no water, just think only of how the toilets would look like!!!!!!!

The Village church in Lonehill , donated the money for repairing the pump, luckily a few days later that problem was solved.

In the garden the terraces 4 and 5 have been built and all the beds are almost digged, this last weekend the irrigation was put in, this month we have to get all the beds ready for the summer seeds to go in .

We also sorted out our compost heaps, Lovell Industries donated lots of pellets to built around our compost heaps , it looks a lot neater and is easier to control. Thanks Allison.

I am looking for some body who knows about water tanks, our tanks are connected to the borehole, but I have a problem that when the tank is full, it still keeps pumping water up and ofcourse the tanks overflow, a lot of waste of water but it also damages the brick work around the tanks. As far as I know we need something like a floater in the tank that will warn the pump when the tank is full and then stops pumping. It would be great if there was any body out there who could give me some advice on this!!