grey to green!

Description

POPUP focuses on upliftment through life skills training and skills development as well as support services including medical services. The goal of POPUP is to alleviate suffering, uplift the community, change people's destiny and ultimately work towards the ideal of transforming the city.

The organisation’s limited vegetable garden needed to be extended so that they can meet the need to feed. To do this, the team had to move the paving and clear and prepare the area to be transformed from grey to green! Construct the vegetable garden borders using paving bricks. Fetch, fill, fertilize (prepare the soil for planting).

Currently the organisation has 45 – 50 children. Once the garden is completed they will have 100 children.

The AVI Team

Gareth Boyd – Denny Mushrooms
Thuli Ngwenya – Denny Mushrooms
Liana Kruger – Denny Mushrooms
Carla Renard – Denny Mushrooms
Jenny Gohl – Denny Mushrooms
Ilona Venter – Denny Mushrooms
Roddy Cairns – Denny Mushrooms
Reilly Keen – Denny Mushrooms
Grace Diholo – AVI IT Shared Services
Edna Hing – Denny Mushrooms

Feedback from the project

What we needed done was to extend the organisation’s limited vegetable garden so that we could meet the need to feed!

There were 10 fantastic AVI - Denny Mushroom volunteers. This group really exceeded my expectations, not only did they established the vegetable gardens and plant the fruit trees, but also cleaned up a huge area, worked in the garden, fixed the fountain and now weekly donate 100kg mushrooms for our food program. 

In my opinion the project was a huge success! The volunteers had excellent team spirit and were definitely not afraid to work. Everybody jumped in and in the end accomplished much more than expected. It is exceptional for a group to perform like that. Not only did they establish the vegetable gardens and plant the fruit trees, but also cleaned up a huge area, worked in the garden and fixed the fountain.

Thank you very much! It was of great help and a blessing.