UBUNTU LEADER....from 2009 until now.

Ubuntu LEADER is a mixed approach in which the RAG explores other systems financially efficient and sustainable.

The LEADER methodology, as a deep integrated approach, is  aimed to create self-supported system with minimum incomes. This methodology has been  adapted and integrated to the South African context as far as cultural, social, environmental and local policies are concerned.

The word UBUNTU, as we have seen before, means in Zulu and Nguni languages (with common root with African languages) “we are with the others”, creating and encouraging community and rebuilding in solidarity.

The UBUNTU – LEADER method is organized in 4 steps.

 1) LEADER  Conventional approach. Granting through the Rural Action Group (RAG)   

    (Implemented between 2009-2010)

2) UBUNTU I. RAG creating and supporting a “community rotating fund” managed through Loan, in order to complement the grants for people with difficulties to access to banking services.

(Started to be implemented in 2010 and 2011)

3) UBUNTU II.  Creating community through linking small enterprises. (Current beneficiary projects or small enterprises already working). Through “compost” used in a synergic way as well as other elements as complementary “alternative currencies”

(Considering to be implemented through a pilot experience in 2011)

4) UBUNTU III. Food security and itinerary to agro-ecological entrepreneurship. 

                                Home- Garden- Goat (HGG) 

Considering its implementation as a Pilot Experience along 2011, with 10 families in every RAG, System of managing inside homestead:

The proposed method involves managing a triangle of exchanges among Home, the milking Goat and the Deept patch vegetable garden as we will see described in the following lines:

1)  The garden provides fresh vegetables to the family all along the year, and leafs and other green garbage will be provided / fed to the goat.

2) The goat provides fresh milk to the family (or to ferment it as amasi) and waste to compost that will be used to fertilize the Garden

3) The homestead and family will provide to the garden the waste water all over the year, and if necessary a supplementary water during the dry season in order to guarantee  the provision of fresh vegetables all over the year, mainly maize, beet, pumpkin  during the summer, and cabbage and other leaves during the winter.