Happy vegetables ask for help with sales
The vegetable garden at this location in the immediate vicinity of our preschools has so far supplied the soup kitchens there with vegetables. Only when there was a short-term surplus of a particular type of vegetable was the produce additionally sold. Setbacks in agriculture, as many are certainly aware, are not uncommon. The extremely dry air, the drought of recent years and heat and frost took a heavy toll on the olive trees that were planted, so that no yield was visible. The unproductive olive trees can partly be sold via a nursery; the ones left over are intended to serve as shade providers in future.
Growing success in vegetable cultivation
Since February this year, steps Okakarara has been working with a new, currently voluntary advisor in vegetable cultivation, who has very good expertise. With his help, it may be possible to regularly supply customers with varieties such as carrots, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, beetroot, spinach/Swiss chard, as well as melon, pumpkin or sweet potatoes, in addition to supplying its own soup kitchens. These varieties can be grown because they cope with extreme weather conditions and – and this is an important factor for the successful sale of the vegetables – are eaten by the local population.
Potential buyers would be school canteens in Okakarara, 8 km away, or street and market sales in the next larger city, Otjiwarongo, 100 km away. In the immediate vicinity of the garden, there are hardly any customers apart from occasional passing customers.
As there is a lack of public transport, transporting the vegetables between the garden and the sales points is hardly feasible, which is why we would like to acquire a pick-up for this purpose, which serves both as transport and as a sales area.
Donate part or all of a used pick-up now
for selling the vegetables from our location
Ongombombonde/Okakarara and thereby enable
higher proceeds.
The proceeds will be used directly to pay the preschool costs
after deducting ongoing costs.
Cost:
between 10 and 12.000 €
For a larger donation, please contact Michael Hoppe at info@stepsforchildren.de
