Summer 2008

In November we harvested the first summer vegetables, we had many many courgettes, luckily most of them we could harvest before the school closed in December and the feeding stopped till the beginning of January.There are still many butternuts, spinach, beans and brinjals waiting for the school to start again. Many of the mothers who volunteer on the project go home to their families in the rural areas over the holidays, but fortunate for us there are always a few who stay home and keep helping us through the holidays in the vegetable garden, their is always lots of work to do during this time, watering, weeding preparing new beds, new seeds to be planted etc.

When Shirley heard that Gertrude was using some old spectacles from somebody else, she took her to the optician and made sure Gertrude got some new glasses with the right prescription for her eyes.
She is showing them off on the photo standing next to Shirley.

In November Sibongeli got her little baby daughter Gracious Joy, here she is with her big brother Prince. Many of our visitors and early helpers in the garden will remember Sibongeli, she was one of our first volunteers in the project, last year she got a job and left the project, but little Prince is always there to help us in the garden.

Shirley an I would like to thank all our friends especially Henny and Knud Jensen, Marleen Buscop and my mother Marianne Robijn in Holland for all their input, interest and finding of sponsors for The feeding and gardening project, without you the garden could not excist.

A big thank you, we wish you all a healthy new year filled with love and happiness.