As you may know I love helping out and as such I do a bit of
charity work when I can, I co-ordinate outreach programmes, events and
awareness raising campaigns for a foundation called the Art of Being Humane. I
have been assisting here for a year now and one of our projects that I am very
fond of is The Matthew Rusike Children’s Home. I have a weakness for children
maybe because of my kids but I just feel that I should do all I can to help
tomorrow’s future much brighter than ours and it begins with the children. I
will be updating you all on the various projects we are currently running and
keeping you in the loop in case you may want to help out too.
This is a new project that has begun due to an urgent need
we have noticed. The main reason the Art of Being Humane Foundation picked
Matthew Rusike as one of its organisations to assist of choice was because it
had a very good sustainable development plan in place. When we met the Matthew
Rusike Children’s Home director a year ago they had thriving chicken projects
and gardening projects underway our job was solely to launch other projects. Whilst
at one of our play days with the children we noticed a rather diminished, dry
and bare garden.
This was very disheartening and as such we made it a
priority to begin a gardening day, This day is set out for The Art of Being
Humane volunteers to come out in their numbers to help in any way to revamp the
Matthew Rusike garden as it is their lively hood. Our first gardening day was on the 18th
of August 2012 and the turnout was very amazing fortunately we had a number of
the members of a church to assist us. The garden’s state was a mess we had high
hopes of planting seedlings and watering the existing crops but our plans had
to change as the current vegetables were near death due to weeds. Our first
gardening day became the deweeding day
we spent our morning deweeding in order to save the existing crops.
Below are images from our first gardening day on the 18th of August 2012
Our next gardening day will be this weekend, Saturday the 22nd
of September 2012, I hope that we will all attend it in our numbers and help
save the Matthew Rusike Children’s home garden. We may still have deweeding to
do in addition to preparing beds and planting summer seeds before the rains if
you have any experience at in gardening or have free time and wouldn’t mind
learning how to get green fingers come along to Matthew Rusike Children’s home
in Epworth from 9.30 am.
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