provide necessary services to their communities. Through the training they become sustainable and competent to assist their communities to become sustainable too. Collectively the mamas are able to feed 5 600 members with fresh produce from the food garden project and their bread baking project provides children in their care with fresh bread daily and has generated an income of well over R5 500 000 in one year. Mama Sipiwe Solomons from Hazyview, Mpumalanga, has her own food garden and piggery which makes it possible for her to provide a feeding scheme for orphans. This project sees her delivering 30 food packages per day, supporting 10 high schools and catering for 87 children in the programme. She also supplies her local hospice with food packages for 20 patients and shares 40 bunches of spinach, twice a week for 40 families. With her food garden she is able to generate 10
some income on a monthly basis which is sufficient to keep her going and helping her community get their five fruit and veg a day. Mama Shirley Merime from Ennerdale, Gauteng, who is the founder of the Ebenezer Care Centre, uses her food garden to feed 120 pre-schools, 55 children from her own centre, 75 elderlies, 18 of her own workers and 60 underprivileged people from her surrounding informal settlement each day. These mamas are not only aware of the needs of their communities, but they actively address those needs in whatever way possible. In their townships they unassumingly take charge of protecting, nurturing and educating their young and take care of the abandoned elderly. Vlok explains, “This project is proof that if we all come together we can really make a difference in the lives of people who need it the most. We will continue to grow the Clover Mama Afrika initiative to reach even more community