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GRASS gets a litle grass from NV Cewu Primary School

Grocott's MailBy Grocott's MailAugust 27, 2009No Comments3 Mins Read
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On Wednesday 26 August the Green Revolution and Social Solutions (Grass) society from Rhodes Univerisity got a little grass from NV Cewu Primary School.

the principal of NV Cewu Primary School, Anele Ndyolashe, gave a piece of land to the Green Revolution and Social Solutions (GRASS) society from Rhodes University to start a garden.

On Wednesday 26 August the Green Revolution and Social Solutions (Grass) society from Rhodes Univerisity got a little grass from NV Cewu Primary School.

the principal of NV Cewu Primary School, Anele Ndyolashe, gave a piece of land to the Green Revolution and Social Solutions (GRASS) society from Rhodes University to start a garden.

This society is involved in a women’s project in St Augustine Church that takes care of orphans from different schools and they help the kids with homework, school uniforms and food.

Grass felt that a garden for the project will be a wonderful idea but then they struggled with finding land to start the garden in.

"We then talked to Mrs Klass who leads the women’s project and she talked to the principal of the school on our behalf who then gladly gave us a big piece of land," said Grass organiser, Olivia Lawrence.

The school is just by the church and it, "was a wonderful option for us," added Lawrence. Ndyolashe said, "The people from the church asked for a piece of land and we agreed because we have learners who benefit from this project.

About 20 kids go to the church everyday and this is the least we can do to help." This is not the first garden for the school, the first one was started by Umthathi Training Project. "A second garden won’t make a difference as long as it is for a good cause," added Ndyolashe.

They have started digging the land and, "are planning to make beds and compost them, the garden might be ready in about three weeks time," said Lawrence.

Manual labour was offered by Oakdene house as part of their community engagement, "Each student residence has to be involved in a community project so we saw this as a good idea and we decided to help out," said Oakdene’s environmental representative, Jonathan Griffiths.

Jai Clifford-Holmes from Galela Amanzi project said, "we will install a water tank so that we can water the garden. This will come in handy, especially if the water problem persists.

" Ramotsamai Khunyeli said, "our rep asked us to help out and I saw it as a good cause and decided to come." Sifiso Dhlamini said, "I decided to help because I had the time to do it. Some people have done it for me before, this is my way of ploughing back."

 

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