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Skills development and environmental awareness for local communities
The AutoTec Foundation is partnering with JGI SA Roots & Shoots in a number of sustainable community upliftment ventures in Mpumalanga.
These include extending our food garden programmes into eight more schools in the White River and Numbi areas during 2008. JGI will provide garden kits and expertise, while the Foundation will address problems such as water supply, tool sheds and tools to ensure sustainability.
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Jeannine Ferreira, director of the Autotec Foundation; JGI SA volunteer Andrea Rosenmann;
and Paula Martini from Eat Smart Be Smart, also a director of the Autotec
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This forms part of the Foundation’s larger community focus, which includes running skills-development workshops.
“We aim to address the problems of whole communities through management and training, so that they are left with hope and a future,” says Jeannine Ferreira, co-founder of the AutoTec Foundation.
The Foundation is also involved in initiating excursions to JGI Chimpanzee Eden, including tours for disabled and disadvantaged children.
“ Environmental awareness is our main aim,” says Jeannine. “We are also in the process of designing a chimp colouring-in book in conjunction with JGI SA and are actively involved in fundraising for the organisation.”
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