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Jade Orgill bit.ly/3tApy9n
Current position: Founding Executive Director at The Sprightly Seed NPC Managing Director at Consulting Possibility
Academic history: 2019 Permaculture Design at Permaculture South Africa 2013 Master of Social Science, specialising in Social Planning and Administration at UCT
What is The Sprightly Seed and what led you to creating it? I naturally gravitated toward the rights and needs of children over the 12 years I’ve spent in development practice. Along the way, I nurtured a passion for sustainable living, growing more and more connected to what was happening to the earth and how I could shift it through the power I have as an individual. In 2015, I took a moment to reflect on where I had been, what I had learned and re-imagined what I was truly capable of. So I took everything I had, knowledge, experience and strength and wrote a development programme that would help communities sustain their basic needs and right to healthy food over the long term. Food gardening had been a practice I had been nurturing in my own life and it was something I loved. I knew the critical importance of it, not only to children, but to communities as a whole as well as the environment; I wanted to share it. The Sprightly Seed was started in 2017 and it now runs a food security programme for child projects located in resource poor communities of the Western Cape.
2011 Bachelor of Social Science honours, specialising in Social Development at UCT
What are your responsibilities at The Sprightly Seed?
2007 Diploma in Project Management at Varsity College
As managing director of The Sprightly Seed I am responsible for multiple functions within the business; from financial control mechanisms and policy development to the simplest of operational reports required in the field. We have been in business for 3.5 years and much of our starting years have been dedicated to building a quality product and service for our beneficiary base. This means that I spend a lot of time quality controlling the implementation of the work we do, ensuring that we are not only effective and efficient, but that each project receives the pivoting they need in order to be successful.
2004 Bachelor of Business Administration at University of South Africa
Even though our product is standardised, we often find that our service can only be uniform to a certain extent. When project needs differ we have to tweak our service to meet their needs. Behaviour change is individual and as development practitioners we have to adapt in order to achieve the outcomes we need.
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