Summer Starts at Leeuwkop

Just a few photos to start off the season.

Q3 Newsletter

Hlumelelisa's Q3 newsletter is here! Please click on this link to read in pdf. Thank you to our team, learners and network of friends and colleagues for your continued support!

Celebrate Arbor Week!

South Africa's Arbor Week 2011 comes to an end today - celebrate the day by planting a tree! We recently asked our learners in our horticulture training courses at both the Leeuwkop and Johannesburg Central Correctional Facilities about their favourite lesson so far and many responded that it was learning about trees, their names and their purpose.

The official trees for 2011 are the Jacket-plum (common) and Bride's Bushes and the Common Wild Elder (rare) - find these and other trees at two of Hlumelelisa's partners Food and Trees for Africa and the Tiqwa School nursery.

Hlumelelisa learners at the Leeuwkop Correctional Facility shade house facility which is home to many of the trees grown by our students.

And Growing!

Hlumelelisa welcomes Mafika Vilakasi to our training team at Johannesburg Central Correctional Facility - Mafika will be working closely with training facilitator William Moropana as a trainer in training.

Our Team is Growing!

Happy Baloyi, one of Hlumelelisa's graduates from our Leeuwkop class of 2009, has just started at Leeuwkop as a training intern - a "train the trainer"participant. We're excited to have him on the team - he is pictured here with our training facilitator, Kagiso Monegi.

Q2 Newsletter

Our Q2 newsletter is here! This features a "Spotlight on" a member of our training facilitation staff, Kagiso Monegi - click here to also see a short video with Kagiso telling her story in her own words.

Hlumelelisa Continues to Grow

Less than two weeks ago on 13 June we started a new training programme at the Medium B male section at Johannesburg Central Correctional Facility. Training is being headed up by one of Hlumelelisa's homegrown facilitators, William Moropana. After spending only a short time with our 14 new trainees, William reckons they're a super sharp group - we're looking forward to watching them grow over the course of the nine-month programme.

We're excited to have started training but there is a lot of work to undertake at our new location - our facility so far is made up of one classroom. Plans are in the works for planting outdoor gardens fas well as for construction of a shadehouse. Stay tuned for photos of our progress!