Grâce à ce partenariat, plusieurs améliorations importantes ont pu être réalisées au bénéfice des enfants et de la communauté : un forage pour sécuriser l’accès à l’eau, l’extension du jardin potager qui contribue à l’alimentation des programmes de nutrition, ainsi … Read More
In the garden at Roosboom Halfway House, the women have this year grown several hundred young cabbage plants themselves, a crop particularly well suited to the southern african winter. Sown in the garden nursery, the seedlings are now ready to be … Read More
The gardening team at the Roosboom Halfway House is now proudly wearing its new working suits made by the women trained in sewing at Garden of Skills. 🧵✨ Every day, the gardeners maintain the many plots prepared for the southern … Read More
In Roosboom, the children staying at the Halfway House play an active role, on a daily basis, in maintaining the vegetable garden at the day centre. Watering, sowing, planting, transplanting, harvesting: the activities change with the seasons, as does their … Read More
Designing Hope has commissioned Zimbabwean artisans to produce wire stands designed to hold condom dispensers made available to communities in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini. At Halfway House Roosboom, the women at the centre have distributed these stands to small … Read More
As the southern winter approached, the women at Halfway House Roosboom had started cabbage seedlings in their nursery. The young seedlings are now fully grown. The women are busy transplanting them into the growing beds, both in the greenhouse and … Read More
Before planting the seedlings produced in the nursery, the women in charge of the Roosboom Halfway House vegetable garden take care to enrich the soil to ensure good growth for the future plants. Fisani, who is in charge of the … Read More
The children at Roosboom Halfway House have created a herb garden in the vegetable garden of the halfway house. After preparing the ground and loosening the soil, they carefully planted young seedlings of sage, lavender, rosemary, thyme, chives and mint … Read More
As part of the nursery renovation, the Roosboom team, assisted by Designing Hope, manufactured two new seedling trays to complement the two existing ones. Made from thick 20 cm high planks, the trays measure 4.30 m long by 80 cm … Read More
In Roosboom, the vegetable garden team – now made up of four women and two men from the township – works several mornings a week alongside Fisani, who is in charge of the project. After the harvest, a new essential … Read More
