The land that was used to rebuild Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen was previously a productive veggie garden. We rebuilt Yiza Ekhaya with a flat roof on which to establish a vegetable garden. But Mickey has greater plans, she has spoken to all her neighbours about a vacant plot of land adjacent to Yiza Ekhaya. With…
It’s all happening! We are busy building with Hemp on the Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen site. It seems like so long ago that we were discussing potentially using natural raw materials to rebuild Mickey’s structure; debating the pros and cons and finally deciding to go for it. And boy are we glad we did! Right…
We have exciting news for you! The Adele Drechmeier Trust is sponsoring R150 000 to the Yiza Hemp House project! What does this mean? This means that in one great big leap we have reached the second wave of our project. We can build a rudimentary permanent structure for Mickey’s Project (Yiza Ekhaya). The Trust…
GREEN HOME has had a relationship with the Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen for a number of years now. Last year, we received news that Mickey had been asked to move the structure from which she runs her soup kitchen. We worked on new plans and had some discussions with builders and decided it was…
A quote from Carol says it all “Wow. If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to have a dream come true…” We’re looking for low cost, green building options for rebuilding the Yiza Ekhaya soup kitchen. The structure needs to be rebuilt to accommodate the number of people she is helping and…
Its time for an update on the ladies at the Yiza Ekhaya project. Winter has been a busy time for them, feeding 160 children and adults on medication and offering them a safe place to be when their parents are at work. At the beginning of the month, one of Mikey’s funders pulled out, leaving…
GreenHome visited the community garden at the Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen and Sewing Project for an update on the weekend. We were thrilled to see how well the garden had taken and was thriving in the hot summer conditions. We found butternuts, potatoes, onions, mielies, tomatoes and many more plants growing nicely. Veggies grown in…
Mickey Winifred Linda is the incredibly inspiring woman behind the Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen and Sewing Project, a community project based in Khayelitsha. Her project feeds 150 children in the neighbourhood and around 20 elderly people who are on medication which requires them to eat so they can take it. Mickey is a 59 year…
Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen and Sewing Project is in Khayelitsha. They run a community garden, grow veggies and feed up to 200 hungry children and elderly people from the community. More about how this wonderful project started and the woman behind it here. GreenHome has been involved with Yiza Ekhaya for a number of years…
