Last month, 50 rural women harvesters attended a baobab growing and sustainable harvesting course. I had such fun with this, taking 50 rural women baobab fruit harvesters on a field trip from Zigodini village to Pafuri River Camp Nursery, on the banks of the Mutale River. The course was done with a mixture of practical parts and discussions. The discussions […] Continue Reading
Last week while on a photo shoot in Venda, the harvesters asked me where I went with all the baobab fruit I buy from them. So I said, why don’t you come and see? We worked out the taxi money from Venda and back and set a date for the following Thursday. The women travelled 200km to visit EcoProducts […] Continue Reading
Last week, you met Sani Madau one of the Venda women who does embroidery to supplement her income. Now I want to introduce you to the lady who makes it possible – Ina Le Roux. She has created a wonderful business supporting rural Venda women who embroider such beautiful work. Read her absolutely heartwarming story of how she began the […] Continue Reading
Annie Nenzhelele has been collecting baobab fruit for EcoProducts for a few years now. Last week when I was visiting her village she said that she has been using the money she has earned for building her house. She took me into her house to show me the bags of cement she had bought to complete internal plastering. She will […] Continue Reading