Community food garden for Mt Pleasant

Community food garden for Mt Pleasant

Writer Hedda Mittner

Photographer Taylum Meyer

One of the biggest challenges for Just Care during the lockdown was to assist the Mount Pleasant families of their aftercare children with everything from food parcels to masks, blankets and dog food. Assisted by other NPOs such as HAWS and Food4Love, founder Jacquie Rathfelder, her staff and several volunteers were able to support many families in need until their children could return to school.

Realising that a more sustainable solution was needed to feed Mount Pleasant’s families, Jacquie had many discussions with community members and approached the municipality for assistance in starting a community food garden.

Vuyo (LED) with members of the Mount Pleasant committee, Ethel, Gaynor, Rodney, Peter, Jerome and Luvo (LED) at the handover of the Just Care Community Garden.

With the support of LED projects coordinator Luvo Bomvana and his colleague Vuyolwethu Gwantshu, a pocket of municipal land next to the Moffat Hall was identified.

Click on the newspaper below to read more (see page 16).