Empowering Women with Disabilities Through Vegetable Gardening Project
Re tla Kgona Disability Centre in South Africa aims to empower women with disabilities by creating jobs, preventing poverty, and encouraging community participation. The project involves activities like soil preparation, fertilization, and marketing, with partnerships for support. With a focus on empowering women and ending violence, the project targets 88 disabled individuals, providing them with voice and choice opportunities.
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SADC PROTOCOL@WORK SUMMITS 2019 Action and Youth Category Template COUNTRY: SOTH AFRICA, LOCATION: KOPANONG HOTEL DATE: 28 JUNE 2019 PRESENTER: SETHOSA RUTH ORGANISATION: RE TLA KGONA DISABILITY CENTRE Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
SYNOPSIS Brief summary of the project Re tla kgona Disability started in 2012 August, It was situated at Moletjie Ga- Mabiloane in Polokwane. This centre was opened to accommodate people with disabilities. They must be visible to take part in the community. We have 88 disabled people, 58 women and 30 men. We decided to do vegetable garden to provide vegetables to the community. Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
OBJECTIVES What did the process/project set out to do? To create jobs for the community To prevent poverty To encourage people with disability to take part in the community Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
ACTIVITIES Describe your activities Soil preparations Fertilization Weed control Diseases and pest control Harvest Marketing Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
PARTNERS LEDA- to find Cooperatives Certificate and workshops Social Development to find NPO Certificate and workshops Department of Agriculture- Advice about Farming Traditional Authority- Give us place to perform our activities. Special focus- Give us information and workshop Ward Councillor- Help us to solve our problems or needs Parents of people with disabilities- To share ideas Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
BUDGET Amount in $ 0 Gender specific allocation Gender in mainstream projects (please specify) 0 R4400.00 Amount contributed in cash or in kind by partner organisations (please specify) Income generating project R2800.00 Total R7200.00 Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
BENEFICIARIES Category Women Men Total % Women Direct beneficiaries 58 30 88 66% Indirect through other networks) beneficiaries (e.g. 2780 1450 4230 66% Online beneficiaries (e.g. website access, mailing lists, scholarly articles) 0 0 0 0 Total 2838 1480 4318 66% Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION How do you monitor the success of the project? What types of monitoring and evaluation methods and tools did you use to measure impact? We hold monthly meetings We keep records and file all the documents Write minutes, signing attendance register Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
RESULTS Please share some of your results for example: Women s empowerment Rosah Ngoetjana She is proud of joining this Organisation because she can make their own vegetable garden in the backyard and sell to the community. Public participation We educated about farming and share problems accounted in our work Media coverage (including social media) Capacity building We attended workshop on how to plant and watering vegetables. Changes in gender attitudes at individual and community level They do their own vegetable garden in their backyard. They buy seedlings from us. School Children make their own vegetable gardens in their school yard for feeding . Any other changes Men for change Phineas Makgakga is happy about working in this Organisation Because it keeps him busy unlike going to the shops and get vegetables to feed his family Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNT What have been the main challenges? How have these challenges been overcome? What lessons have been learned? How will the learning be applied? Lack of funds Lack of water Negative influences from the community Neglect of disability people by family members Farmers day-How to cultivate, survive and marketing Exposure day- experience of farming and to deliver best vegetables to the market. Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION How can the work be sustained/kept going? How can the work be cascaded to other organisations? Plant more crops and sell Asking for donations Plant more crops for the year not seasonally and it is the needs for the customer. Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
NEXT STEPS5 What are the key priorities going forward? The Company must grow up. To hire more people from the community. Sell our vegetables inside and outside the Country THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.
