Kilimo Agriculture Programme
The Thabo Mbeki Foundation seeks to leverage the early successes of its education project that intends to leverage technology to close the educational gap that exists between rural and urban schools, to introduce an agriculture intervention to the 50 schools we work in in the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga.
The education project has thus far worked with 25 primary schools in each province, serving 23 337 learners with technology to use in classroom lessons. A total of 244 teaching staff have been taken through professional development and digital training sessions by 7 coaches.
The Foundation’s Kilimo Agriculture Programme aims to:
- Start vegetable garden projects at primary schools to cultivate practical gardening skills.
- Distribute seeds, seedlings and inputs to both bolster food and nutritional security in peri-urban and rural areas impacted by the impact of Covid-19.
- Provide training to subsistence and small-scale farmers.