INTRODUCTION

A number of initiatives have been created to support and provide work for the community. These include a wide range of skills including farming, horticulture and craft making.

These are a development of the ‘Kabubbu Women’s Club’ and the ‘Kabubbu Men’s Group’ that we helped form and have been working alongside since our first visit in 1999. The two groups combined in 2003 to work together.

We first came across the group of women in February 1999 and called them ‘The Quarry Women’. These women had taken the initiative, regardless of the physical cost, to seek to earn a living to feed and clothe their children.

Many of the women had lost their husbands because of AIDS and to support their families they work in the hot sun smashing large boulders into small stones to be used in the construction industry using a small household hammer. For their work they earn around £2.50 (€3.75 / US $5.00) per week.

Work brings a means to provide for your own family through the income you earn. It also brings dignity and a means to self-sufficiency.

There is a well known expression: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish (and give him a rod and line) and you feed him for life”.

We are into feeding the man for life. How about you? Please can you help them to help themselves through the provision of the necessary tools?

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