How Students Are Addressing AIDS, Poverty, and Famine in Africa
Cida University is the first virtually free university in South Africa. Located in downtown Johannesburg, it serves young people from previously disadvantage backgrounds, but who are academically deserving. It offers a Bachelor of Business Administration and students can learn skills like bio-intensive farming.
This university has a special program, called the Nelson Mandela extranet. In this program, Students go back to their communities and teach them about HIV/AIDS , bio-intensive farming, and money management. Remembering your ancestors and going back to the community to raise the consciousness level of the society is a fundamental principle of ethical leadership.
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The bio-intensive team consists of more than ten students who are planning to start their own projects in their communities. These projects will give people skills in bio-intensive farming so that communities will be able to feed themselves.
The program will also benefit orphans who lost their parents through HIV/AIDS. Nutritious food organically grown will help the HIV people to boost their immune system. The immune system becomes vulnerable to diseases because of lack of proper diet. “You are what you eat.”
It’s great to know that things like this are happening in areas we generally hear nothing about.
Great to hear about the BioIntensive Farming! Two CIDA graduates went to train in Kenya for two months at the Grow Biointensive training centre there: http://www.mhacbiointensive.org/growbiointensive.html
They returned and started South Africa’s FIRST Grow Biointensive training center at CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg. This enables the students to really take some very valuable and practical skills back to their communities. Thank Dumisani for promoting this ground breaking rural skills development programme.
The end of the world is near. Famine, pestilence, and chaos are everywhere. Whatch for the signs, the end times are upon us.
I would congratulate this initiative. Our gandparents had saving mentality hard coded to their lives. Savings in terms of money, energy, environment etc., Nowadays we really do not care, we rather spend it and look for more. This is the underlying reason behind all our current problems.
I love the article its fresh. do you need any funding?
Dear Dumisani,
Well done! “God help those who help themselves” and your self-help model, especially the bio-intensive farming will be a role model for many other places as well.
Keep up the good work!