Name of Organisation Date of establishment PBO# Business phone Physical address Website Email

Apotheosis est. 03-2011 Reg. 7-02-12 930038248 074 903 1332 85 Manor Drive, Manor Gardens, Dbn, KZN, 4001

Organisation details

Name: Position: Email: Phone 1: Phone 2:

Nicholas Molver Chief Operating Officer (COO) nick.molver@feedingtheself.org 078 062 2204 074 903 1332

Contact person

www.feedingtheself.org the.boys@feedingtheself.org

Executive table
Item Timeframe Cost Funding requested from ACDT Additional Funding required Project outline Detail 10 months total (6 months core). R168 150 R170 000 None (Project is designed to run completely independently). Build food gardens in schools. Use food gardens to teach curriculum material in new, engaging manner. Develop food gardens at students homes and in community. Create sustainable network/ community centered on gardens & teachers. Food gardens in participating childrens homes and at participating schools, improvement in all academic grades, improvement in teachers effectiveness, sustainable garden network created and maintained across teachers and communities, environmental rejuvenation at core locations, community building. Each school could serve as the hub location for a repeat run with 4 schools per core school. Possible expansions will be included in the interim and final reports. Entire community served by the participating schools, across several categories. Focus on women, especially elderly women, and providing sustainable skills training to the unemployed. 3 contact teachers per school, 5 principals in total, the ward manager and the district manager. By using the children as a knowledge distribution network we pass the learning through their families and social circles, with each new person creating further vectors for knowledge dissemination. This will be centredaround the creation of a community garden network based around each of the 5 schools. 5 locations in a 25km radius around the chosen central location. Specific locations to be decided according to DoE, principals and funder. Arrangements will be made with the local schools region district manager. Schools can be identified and enlisted at very short notice. This contact at the Department of Education to provide an entry point into the local schools. If the Funder wishes to leave the choice up to FTS, we shall use our contacts within the Department of Education to identify particularly needy schools. FTS is introduced to the school, principal, and teachers by the ward manager, who ensures schools which most need and want the project get it. With this creating a cluster of schools and network will be more manageable. All reference documents can be found in the project data collection, and are linked individually within the document. School materials can be found in the garden teaching collection.

Outcomes & Long term impact

Possible extension Beneficiaries Stakeholders Sustainability strategy

Location

Supporting documents

(all hyperlinks in this document are operational in the doc and pdf) List of current directors and officers
Name Chirag Patel Marc Robson Nicholas Molver Yoliswa Zondo Demographic Male Indian Male White Male White Black Female Role CEO (Director) CIO (Materials design) COO (Oversight & analysis) PR officer Email chirag.patel@feedingtheself.org marc.robson@feedingtheself.org nick.molver@feedingtheself.org yoliswa.zondo@feedingtheself.org Phone 073 557 8909 084 261 3244 078 062 2204 083 586 3296

Project summary
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Activity Preparation/Initial Setup Setup Project Phase 1 (Start) Project Phase 2 Project Phase 3 (End) Continuation/Sustainability Phase 1 Continuation/Sustainability Phase 2 Continuation/Sustainability Phase 3 Continuation/Sustainability Phase 4 End Interim Report Final Report Running Report Preparation Report Report Total 12000 32 900 17500 31300 22900 28750 8400 9900 3000 1 500 168 150

Produced materials:

The master document includes all materials, as well as a gardening guide and the course outline from prior schools, integrated into Maths, Natural Science, Languages and Life Orientation. Also available are the separated activities, posters, lesson plans and support material. Sample reports include the Preparation Report, Running Report, FTS Academic & Garden results and Final report - Ottawa, Ogunjini.

Anticipated outcomes
Outcome / Month Academic 3
Students improvement in natural science, mathematics, languages and life orientation grades. All material is designed to present academic content in an accessible fashion. Revitalisation of area in which garden is planted. Revitalisation of area in which garden is planted. Dissemination of knowledge into the community.

6
Increased grades across all subjects. Improvement in teacher ability. Productive food garden in schools. Productive food garden in each childs home. Increased community involvement.

12
Ability for the project to be taught by in place staff without supervision. Create community based around garden. As before

36
Ability for project to be rolled out by students.

60
As before

School Garden Home Garden Community

Productive trees. As before

fruit

As before

As before

Gardens planted in community by children.

Schools act as a hub for expansion into other schools and the community.

As before

Outcomes will measured and analysed in the same fashion as the aforementioned project reports.

Previous projects financial overview

Location MLS Blackburn Siphosethu Diakonia Ottawa Ogunjini AMCUP Type School project School project (pilot) Workshop School project School project Consultation Duration 12 weeks 12 weeks One Day 14 weeks 14 weeks 3 Hours Funding R37 500 R37 500 Initial dig & materials R4 000 R4 000 R7 000 R5 000 R5 000 N/A Ongoing materials R2 000 R2 000 N/A R3 000 R3 000 N/A Human labour 31 500 31 500 R4 000 14 500 14 500 R500

R22 500 R22 500 R500

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Organizations prior involvement with these issues

In all past projects, all objectives were achieved as far as we could measure, as the survey data and anecdotes show. Further results from the Department of Education and longer term results from the school are required to state whether the objectives were achieved in a sustained manner, as they were designed to.

Summary of sample results from previous schools

Successfully integrated into the curriculum High uptake of home gardens. MLS Blackburn average grade went up 34%, from 58 to 92. All schools, the size of the garden was at least doubled over the course of the project. Teachers reported that there has been a strong positive effect on the students understanding of Natural Science, Life Orientation, Mathematics, and English, and will positively affect the students end of term grades. The students are strongly interested in the garden work and willing to put in extra time after class. Teachers feel their school community and teaching style have benefited from the project& that they could continue running the project without supervision from now on. 98% of the children feel it has improved their natural science work, have been using their log books, both enjoy and feel better after working in the garden, and have spoken to community members about the project and their gardens.

See FTS Academic & Garden results, Anecdotes, The Average Students Experience, and Final report - Ottawa, Ogunjini for full results, which are too broad, detailed and complex to capture here.

Timetable gloss: what each activity contains/ involves

All FTS staff paid at R150/h, which includes additional costs such as transport and printing. All labour staff paid R75/h, and sourced from the local environment. Activities: Consultations: Half-hour consultation at school with teachers, half-hour garden analysis, network building through relating schools to one another, adaptation of next chunk of material to on the ground situation and requirements. Network building events with teachers gathering at one of the schools with refreshments and transport provided so that they can discuss their experiences of the garden projects, share ideas and discuss problems. Also provides opportunity for community/parents day, helping to embed the garden and its ideals into the local community. It will also include the distribution of seeds, plants etc. for the attendees. The project requires that it be adapted to each individual location based on immediate requirements. As a result these costs are included for whatever the given location most requires/desires. For example, it could cover building a worm farm, lizard garden, trellises etc. All reports are produced primarily as guides for the schools, in order to help them run the project independently in the future. Materials produced include activities, posters, lesson plans and support material. Invitation from principals, relevant DoE paperwork, garden designs, weeks 1-6 outline, financial breakdown (design, dig, materials), funding requirements. Please refer to Preparation Report for a prior example. Weeks 1-6 materials (Lesson plans, posters, activities, support materials). Weeks 7-12 materials outline, initial survey, photo diary, financial breakdown (consultations, additional school materials etc.). Please refer to Running Report for a prior example. Anecdotes, final survey results, initial analysis, updated garden plan (showing changes and extension). Ottawa & Ogunjini. Analysis of survey results, academic results, recommendations for expansion and sustainability, references from teachers and contact personal, samples of students work. MLS Blackburn & Siphosethu. Please refer to FTS Academic & Garden results and Final report - Ottawa, Ogunjini for a prior example.

Teachers meetings:

Additional Materials:

Reports:

Reports: Preparation:

Running report:

Interim report: Final report:

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Proposed timetable, budget, reporting structure

Overview
This timetable assumes project start in July, however, it can be broken over the summer, as in the previous schools run. In this case the project will start in September and run until March.
Month 1 Early Early By Mid By End By End [Month total] 2 Early Early Late Mid End End [Month total] 3 Beginning Project Phase 1 (Start) Teachers Networking & Garden Meet 1 One Consultation Additional Materials: Trees, Structural Material etc. FTS [All], Contact teachers [All], Community members [Location] FTS [CMO + Attendant] Event Organisation: Catering etc. 5 Locations, 4.5 Weeks, 2 pp, 2 Hours Locations 1500 1 1 500 Setup Funding Confirmation Garden Dig Materials: Notebooks, plants, tools etc. Materials: Week 1-3 Activities, Lesson Plans etc. Introductory teachers workshop Preparation Report ACDT trustees FTS [All] + Labour crew FTS [COO] FTS [CMO] FTS [All] FTS [CEO + COO] N/A Locations Locations 3h per doc, 4 docs per w, 3 doc sets 3 pp, 2h, 5 locations 2 pp, Hours N/A 3000 1000 150 150 150 5 5 36 30 20 0 15 000 5 000 5 400 4 500 3 000 [32 900] Activity Preparation/Initial Setup Funding Agreement Identification Site Visits Garden Design Design introductory teachers workshop Funders DoE contacts, FTS staff Funders FTS [CEO] FTS [All] N/A N/A N/A Locations 3 pp, 2h each, 5 locations N/A N/A N/A 1 500 150 5 30 0 0 0 7 500 4 500 [12 000] Agent Multiplier type Cost x Total

Weekly

150

90

13 500

Late [Month total] 4 Beginning start

FTS [COO]

500

2 500 [17 500]

Project Phase 2 Teachers Networking & Garden Meet 2 Materials: Week 4-6 Activities, Lesson Plans etc. One Consultation Additional Materials: Trees, Structural Material etc. Running Report Materials: Week 7-9 Activities, Lesson Plans etc. FTS [All], Contact teachers [All], Community members [Location] FTS [CMO] Event Organisation: Catering etc. 3h per doc, 4 docs per w, 3 doc sets 5 Locations, 4.5 Weeks, 2 pp, 2 Hours Locations 2 pp, 10 hours pp 3h per doc, 4 docs per w, 3 doc sets 1500 150 1 36 1 500 5 400

Weekly Late End Late [Month total]

FTS [CMO + Attendant] FTS [COO] FTS (CEO + COO FTS [CMO]

150 500 150 150

90 5 20 36

13 500 2 500 3 000 5 400 [31 300]

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Month 5 Beginning

Activity Project Phase 3 (End) Teachers Networking & Garden Meet 3 One Consultation Materials: Week 10-12 Activities, Lesson Plans etc. Additional Materials: Trees, Structural Material etc. Continuation/Sustainability Phase 1 Teachers Networking & Garden Meet 4 Field Trip Materials Field Trip to Nursery Final Materials for Schools 7 Continuation/Sustainability Phase 2 Interim Report Schools Visits

Agent FTS [All], Contact teachers [All], Community members [Location] FTS [CMO + Attendant]

Multiplier type Event Organisation: Catering etc. 5 Locations, 4.5 Weeks, 2 pp, 2 Hours 3h per doc, 4 docs per w, 3 doc sets Locations

Cost

Total

1500

1 500

Weekly

150

90

13 500

Mid Late [Month total] 6 Beginning Early Mid End [Month total]

FTS [CMO] FTS [COO]

150 500

36 5

5 400 2 500 [22 900]

FTS [All], Contact teachers [All], Community members [Location] FTS [CMO] DOE Contact, Principals, Contact teachers, Parents [Indemnity forms], Silverglen Nursery COO

Event Organisation: Catering etc. Hours Locations Locations

1500 150 4000 1000

1 15 5 5

1 500 2 250 20 000 5 000 [28 750]

Early Twice [Month total] 8 Beginning End Twice [Month total] 9 Beginning Once [Month total] 10 Once [Month total] Project Total

FTS [All] FTS [CMO + COO]

12 hours, 3 pp 1 Hour, 2 pp, 5 Loc, Twice

150 150

36 20

5 400 3 000 [8 400]

Continuation/Sustainability Phase 3 Teachers Networking & Garden Meet 5 Final Report Schools Visits FTS [All], Contact teachers [All], Community members [Location] FTS [All] FTS [CMO + COO] Event Organisation: Catering etc. 12 hours, 3 pp 1 Hour, 2 pp, 5 Loc, Twice 1500 150 150 1 36 20 1 500 5 400 3 000 [9 900] Continuation/Sustainability Phase 4 Teachers Networking & Garden Meet 6 Schools Visits FTS [All], Contact teachers [All], Community members [Location] FTS [CMO + COO] Event Organisation: Catering etc. 1 Hour, 2 pp, 5 Loc, Once 1500 150 1 10 1 500 1 500 [3000] End Schools Visits FTS [CMO + COO] 1 Hour, 2 pp, 5 Loc, Once 150 10 1 500 [1 500] 168 150

Information about other sources of support

Stakeholders are required to only provide non-monetary resources such as labour and space to grow in.

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History and objectives of your organization

History/ background: Feeding the Self (FTS) is a PBO (est. 2011). It designs integrated food security, education, and community development projects that are as resource-light and adaptable as possible, tailoring instances to each specific communitys needs. The directors started off in university providing student support services and lecturing, before realising that the problems in education were much deeper down; students were not interested in what they were learning, did not know how to learn, and had serious problems that needed to be addressed before they could concentrate. In response, FTS developed an integrated course that requires no resources aside from labour, land and seeds, adaptable to any environment it might find itself in. We started from the idea that people need to see quick results, and to be interested and social in their learning; the idea that without these, no project could sustainably succeed. FTS provides them with what they need to expand the garden first around the school, then into their homes, then into the community. To create affordable, adaptable, and easily rolled out initiatives that immediately and over the long term improve the social, psychological, educational and physical environments in which activities are performed. We believe that solutions to problems should be local and considered, and require no special resources other than those available on-location, and projects and workshops are adapted accordingly. In an environment that often treats the underprivileged like they are incapable we treat them as if theyre capable, giving them the minimum equipment and maximum guidance they need, and they rise to the challenge. School project, workshops, consultations. Schoolchildren in under-resourced environments and their connected families and communities. We focus on women, especially elderly women, and providing sustainable
skills training to the unemployed. The health implications of a sustainable, locally sourced diet are also relevant to HIV/AIDS sufferers and OVCs (orphaned & Vulnerable Children).

Primary objectives:

Primary activities: Beneficiaries:

Issues to be addressed:

Supporting documents:

The project focuses on the dual issues of food security and education, both being enormous obstacles in South Africa, and indeed the entire continent. By integrating the skill set and activity of creating food producing gardens in the school and community into the schools curricula, the project is able to accomplish this goal. Please see The Art of Teaching Thinking for initial analysis, and the various reports in the project data collection for detail of ongoing assessment. Individual location analysis is done for each project and proposal, with an eye to avoiding errors caused by broad assumption about individual project locations.

Names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail address of three people outside of the applicant organisation who would be willing to discuss the organisations work
Organisation ELET Ottawa Primary Siphosethu Primary Involvement Funding, all four schools Contact principal Contact teacher Position Project Manager Principal Teacher Name Mr Govin Reddy Mrs T P Msane Mrs Buthulezi Contact number 083 288 9808 072 246 5657 073 171 8463

Further references available from References - Teachers, Diakonia and within FTS Academic & Garden results

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