The Sr Kizito Tseleng Home Farming Project Receives Water Tanks For Mmakau Village

by Daluxolo Moloantoa · Published September 18, 2023 · Updated September 20, 2023

The Sr Kizito Tseleng Home Farms project in Mmakau Village, north-west of Pretoria recently received a donation of six Jojo tanks. The tanks were donated by the Gauteng region of the Catholic Order of the Knights of da Gama. The Sr Kizito Tseleng Home Farms project handed the tanks over to members of the Mmakau community who are involved in the project`s home farming initiative.

“I was approached by Mrs Cecilia Moloantoa, a very devout Catholic lady, who asked if the Knights can help the home farming project to help people in her village before Covid struck. Finally, the request was approved by our regional executive in 2023,” Mr Michael Bazil Rai, the Regional Grand Knight of the Gauteng region of the Knights of da Gama said.

The Sr Kizito Tseleng Home Farms project operates the home farming project in Mmakau Village. In 2021, a need was identified in the community to respond to water scarcity through rain-water harvesting, firstly for household consumption and secondly for home vegetable gardening as a means to alleviate food insecurity. It has since grown to include twenty-five food growers, and it is supplemented by seed donations from the Justice & Peace Commission of the Church of the Resurrection in Bryanston, Johannesburg.

“We are overjoyed at this kind demonstration of mercy and compassion by the Catholic Order of the Knights of da Gama. The tanks will go a long way in helping the recipients to better manage their home gardens, and to meet their water consumption needs at home. We extend our gratitude to the Knights of da Gama, and we hope that this is the beginning of a long and mutually beneficial relationship with them. Indeed, give you shall receive,” Mrs Cecilia Moloantoa, project co-ordinator of the Sr Kizito Tseleng Home Farms project said.

The project is named after the late Sr Kizito Tseleng. She was a nun of the Sisters of St Bridgid, and the first and the only Catholic nun from Mmakau Village. She was recognised for her sterling contribution in Catholic education at the St Agnes Convent School in Modimong, near Rustenburg and for her pioneering social work alongside late Stigmatine Fathers priest Fr Michele D`Annucci CSS.

For more information on the Sr Kizito Home Farming project, please contact Mrs Moloantoa on: 061 128 9969 (Calls & WhatsApp).