Delta Primary Sows the Seeds - Article in the People's Post (Retreat)
Published Tuesday 8th December 2009
 
The Feeding Scheme at Delta Primary School in Retreat will now be able to sustain itself with home-grown food.

Love to Africa received some healthy publicity in the latest TNW magazine. Travel News Weekly (TNW) is a weekly travel trade publication for travel managers, professional travel consultants and those engaged in the sale and promotion of every facet of travel in Southern Africa.

A vegetable garden was established in a tunnel at the Attie Van Wyk farmschool outside Durbanville in a community project to help feed about 80 underpriviledged learners of the school.

Whether it’s building a greenhouse for growing vegetables, putting up a community pole, painting an orphanage or planting trees at schools, local and international visitors to the Cape can now make a short-term, but meaningful contribution to the upliftment of historically impoverished communities.

On Thursday the 29th October, heart got a visit from HSH Prince Maximilian of Lichtenstein. H.S.H Prinz Maximilian is the CEO of Lichtenstein Global Trust (LGT), a private banking, wealth and asset management group based in Lichtenstein. The company has invested substantially into heart.

A community on the outskirts of Worcester will soon be able to harvest, eat and sell their very own vegetables from their very own garden. But this is no ordinary garden… it is a garden with a FoodTent in it.

Chalking is an interactive communication tool that spreads an intended message to an unsuspecting public in a way that is unexpected, fresh and unconventional. It often sparks conversation and intrigue, and when it was recently done at St George’s Mall and the Clock Tower in the Waterfront, the results were no different.

 In early October, a group of brave souls ventured out to Gansbaai to take part in a life-changing adrenaline rush – cage diving with Great White sharks. Adrenalize, a youth development programme managed by heart, seeks to generate extraordinary change through extraordinary experiences.

 A flash mob, is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, and then quickly disperse. The noise mob was done for Consider Us (www.considerus.org), an organization that seeks to ensure that the decision makers of today consider the children and their futures.

In the first of his monthly meanderings, Peter Shrimpton, Founder of heart, pleads the case for Social Innovation in South Africa…. We know the facts. Every day, the very livelihood, dignity and survival of people in need come under attack from a number of hybrid aggressors – from water to food, disease to wars. In Africa, the numbers are so great that people have become statistics, bell curves on flip charts and Powerpoints.

Urban Guerilla and Zoom Advertising come together to create an alternative platform for the Consider Us Campaign. The campaign calls for global leaders to "consider us" when making decisions about climate change and the fate of our planet. We generated exposure for the campaign using street chalking and creating a "noise-mob" at the UNEP Climate Conference.

 A group of 13 brave souls ventured out from Woodstock towards Gansbaai this past Sunday in search of a life changing adrenaline rush. The group consisted of 8 young men from Percy Bartley House, a temporary home for boys who are facing challenges in their lives. The event was part of Adrenalize - a youth development project managed by Heart, a local NGO based in Woodstock.

It's not often we see desk-bound employees painting classrooms or planting herbs but that's exactly what "Do It Day" is all about -taking corporate employees out of their comfort zones and into their communities. This annual event, which was started by GreaterGood SA , takes place on 18 September in schools, old age homes, creches and disadvantaged communities right accross the country.

Watch what happened when Grow South Africa went to pay the volunteers a sneaky visit....

Pedestrians walking through St. George’s Mall, Cape Town, were caught by surprise on Friday, 25 September 2009 and treated to a flash-art activation.

Pinocchio Creche in Green Point launched one of the Atlantic Seaboard's very first low-cost greenhouses on Friday

Wetgewing wat veronderstel was om korrupsie by munisipaliteite aan te roer, het tot ’n ontploffing in burokrasie gelei. Me. Helen Zille, premier van die Wes-Kaap en voormalige burgemeester van Kaapstad, sê dit verydel die bystand wat aan maatskaplike projekte gebied kan word.

The first Party with Heart event in Cape Town was launched in the Karma Lounge, Friday 10th July. Party with Heart is a new initiative by Cape Town NGO Heart to involve the nightlife industry in contributing to raising funds to help alleviate social and environmental problems.

For many youngsters, trying to escape a life of poverty avoiding gangsterism and violence is a nearly impossible task.

The Heart store has been a resounding success to date, with sales taking off big-time, increasing 300% month on month (yes, off a very low base) - proving that the store is sustainable.

Earlier this year we gave a team of eight young project managers the opportunity to run this project as the practical part of their studies at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. These events have influenced 45 young adults directly, giving them new perspectives and direction, while benefiting the communities they have helped.