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In the training courses on sustainable agricultural production, especially for fruit, vegetables and medicinal herbs, numerous new women were introduced to the cultivation of food again in 2022. Read more »

Before the start of the summer holidays in South Africa at the beginning of December, FEED distributed one 5 kg bag of Vitality Porridge each to 500 families with children to ensure that the families are supplied during the holiday season. Read more »

In 2022, FEED successfully launched two new pilot projects for kindergarten and school children: The children learn to grow vegetables themselves. Recycled Vitality Porridge bags serve as planting beds, which are ideal for planting and also help to save water. Read more »

Phyllis Kaunda, 61, retired school principal in the largest township near Potchefstroom, Ikageng, built a crèche for children from 2 to 6 year olds about 1 year ago with funds from her own pension, sold her house and takes the vegetables of her own garden to save the children from hunger. Read more »

Over a period of three years, 40 black women from the poorer regions of the North-West province will be trained in sustainable agriculture and comprehensively supported in setting up their own small business. Read more »

2022 began in South Africa with flooding and hail in many parts of the country. Vital crops were destroyed, another blow to the people and the country’s economy after the pandemic. Thanks to further donations and sponsorships, among others from AURUBIS AG, Hamburg, FEED can expand its help with healthy school meals. Read more »

Supported by a school sponsorship of the North German wind energy company Dirkshof, FEED has been able to support the Nkagisang Farm School and the preschool kindergarten of the school since February 2021 with about 40,000 healthy Vitality porridge portions as a school meal as well as a gift for the family members. Read more »

With the help of DEG/KfW funds, up to 40 schools within a radius of 140 km around Potchefstroom will be supported in 2021 to 2023 both with Vitality Porridge for school children and their families and with newly installed school gardens. Read more »

In a three-month intensive training program by FEED in the Food & Energy plant Potchefstroom, which was supported by the Munich-based digital company STTECH, the 44-year-old Sindiswa, a single parent and unemployed by the COVID pandemic, was intensively trained in several training units in sustainable agriculture and subsequently received a permanent position in the Artemesia production Potchefstroom. Read more »

About  290 schoolchildren receive Vitality Booster Porridge every day for 1 school year. Sustainability, energy production from natural resources and local added value – these are the goals that the Dirkshof team from Schleswig-Holstein around Dirk and Thoma Ketelsen have been pursuing for more than 30 years. Read more »