Catholic Community Service AgriPlanner

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Partner(s): The Catholic Community Service (CCS) operates in the areas of agriculture, food security and capacity development/training for underprivileged communities in Bethlehem, Free State (with other projects in KwaZulu Natal, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga.) CCS facilitates skills acquisition directed towards food security through vegetable growing and community kitchens which also benefit vulnerable members of society like children, the elderly and HIV/AIDS patients. Our Involvement: SAIE’s AgriPlanner training provides agribusiness skills that make CCS projects operationally efficient, commercially viable and sustainable. The strategy to boost the capacity of CCS affiliated communities revolves around an initial training of 4 facilitators who in turn relay the AgriPlanner training to 100 small scale farmers (gardeners). An additional dimension of intervention is for SAIE to assist the facilitators with creating CCS schedules for the gardeners and also to make follow ups. The project runs over a year. Project Progress: Two AgriPlanner kits and one hundred workbooks have been dispensed to Catholic Community Services and the four facilitators that have been trained start training for community members in May 2007. SAIE continues to give follow up support. CCS facilitators have in turn trained twenty community gardeners involved in crop production and poultry farming. SAIE will conduct follow-up support in January 2008. The progress report for this project may also be viewed at the South African Social Investment Exchange site http://www.sasix.co.za/projects/reportback/ED-FS-MAY-0075/
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	Product: Agri Planner
	Location: Free State Project Completion:

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