Designing Hope has brought its expertise in Lesotho in a project funded by The Ivory Foundation and managed by the NGO Sentebale. This project is located in St Paul School, in Leribe, at the northern end of Lesotho. It brings together children from 5 to 14 years old, deaf and dumb from rural areas and from very disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Roosboom group supported by Designing Hope in South Africa has traveled to Lesotho to train the children to permaculture methods. Currently, a new project combines the two projects with the design of a cookbook inspired by traditional recipes using vegetables that can be grown locally.
The young deaf and hard-of-hearing residents of Levi’s Nek Farm recently launched a spinach production near the farmhouse.This olcal cultivation allows them to harvest several times a week and regularly enrich their meals. Spinach is an essential ingredient in local … Read More
CThis year, the young residents of Levi’s Nek Farm have had an exceptional harvest: 800 impressively large cabbages!To optimise sales, the harvests are staggered, which allows demand to be met gradually and production to be sold over a longer period.Some … Read More
At Levi’s Nek farm, livestock farming plays an important role in the economic and ecological balance of the site: Wool production is an important resource as spring approaches. The regular birth of lambs also means that some animals can be … Read More
The six young people trained by The Ivory Foundation at the educational farm attached to St Paul’s School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Lesotho have begun collecting manure from the school’s pig farm to fertilise the farm’s … Read More
The communal sanitary block, designed to accompany the future individual homes of the three residents of the farm, has now been completed. Construction of the first house has now begun! The beneficiaries are fully involved in every stage of the … Read More
Following a violent storm, an entire row of wooden posts making up the structure of the greenhouse at Levi’s Nek farm gave way at the base, swept away by the force of the wind on the stretched textile. With the … Read More
As part of The Ivory Foundation’s support for the Levi’s Nek farm in Lesotho, individual houses are being built for the most independent young occupants. These new homes will provide an improved living environment and the prospect of long-term investment … Read More
At the Saint-Paul School for the Deaf in Leribe, Lesotho, a sowing activity was organised with the youngest pupils. Under the coordination of Tsephane, head of the educational farm, six agricultural students first prepared the plots. The children then took … Read More
In Levi’s Nek, Lesotho, a condom-packing activity brings together a group of village women every month at the Farming Our Future farm.The condoms, entrusted by the Ministry of Health, are packaged in batches of four in boxes illustrated with visuals … Read More
Construction of the sanitary block for the future single-family homes of the farm’s three young people has begun. These beneficiaries are the most committed and autonomous of the ten current residents. The Ivory Foundation is building the sanitary block through … Read More
