Key to development is knowledge. Knowledge of health, potential and personal responsibility should start at home and be reinforced at school. The ability of a community to become self reliant comes from within. Working together, utilizing inherent knowledge, learning how to market their produce and with just a little outside help, a community can develop self reliance.

• The Healthy Vine Trust has provided the Sekamuli Secondary School with 2 blocks of 2 classrooms each, one contains a science laboratory which it has equipped.  This school started out with 2 pupils at the elementary level and now has over 250 pupils catering up to secondary level. Expansion plans include a boys’ and a girls’ dormitory so that pupils can attend from a further distance.

New two-classroom block (2010) and Double Classroom block including Science Laboratory

• The Healthy Vine Trust has provided a well-constructed toilet and hand washing facilities for the primary school at Mputte,  a village often cut off during the rainy season.  Expansion plans include the building of two classrooms to replace the mud and wattle one they now use.

Mputte school and school kitchen

• Training of adults in various aspects of The Healthy Vine Trust’s work and projects is a vital element of its programme.

Class of CHWs during Training and Group work during Training