Our country is facing challenges that will determine the future of its success. Strikes, poverty and hunger on a large scale, the continued threat of HIV/AIDS and an emerging youth growing up without a clear direction of the future. We are reminded of these challenges everyday in the media, in our board rooms and through the people we associate with in our daily lives. We are however given a choice, do we pass the buck and write them off as someone else’s problem, or do we do something about them?

NuNet has decided to take the latter stance in establishing the Institute for Rural and Community Development (IRCD) as a vehicle that provides training and development support to rural and peri-urban communities.

The primary project focuses on the most critical areas that need to be addressed in our communities, both in the rural areas and in the outer cities – POVERTY AND FOOD SECURITY. This is done through the Garden of Life Micro farming programme.