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.

6 young South Africans undertake an inspirational mission: driving overland from Cape Town, to London. Through 14 African countries, pioneering a volunteer tourism network that will positively change the lives of many....

"Mama Rosey" Makosa is a pillar in the Philippi community and, at 58 years old, she would be "The Department of Social Services", if Philippi had one. From her corrugated shack in the impoverished informal settlement, she empowers the local unemployed women of all ages in skills that can earn them income (sewing, bead work and knitting) as her contribution to lowering crime. After the training she searches for companies that will employ these women as quickly as possible.

On the 10th of August at midday the "Doing It For Africa" (DIFA) team rolled into London's Trafalgar Square, finishing their amazing Cape Town to London expedition!