Kulah Nathi – South Africa

The Kulah Nathi project is a year-long educational programme for unemployed women in the local township of Charlestown. The programme teaches them how to grow vegetables both in a tunnel and outside, and is broken up into Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum levels of achievement. Once the graduates reach Platinum, they get their own ‘Farm in a Box’ – a small polytunnel equipped with everything they need to start their own growing business.
Still in its fledgling stages the Kulah Nathi project has qualified its first eight Platinum graduates, who now have formed a partnership and have now planted their first tunnels on a plot of land located at our Amajuba site. The farm is situated here so they can benefit not only from our mentorship, but also our water supply.
Our goal is to provide similar plots for 40 graduates by 2021. It’s a very exciting project because the results are fast and vegetable-growing knowledge can be taught relatively quickly, and a guest house market already exists for the graduates.