Community Development, Lifestyle-Sharing & Racial Integration in South Africa | Matt Kroll on Bantu Connection with Django

Since his 20’s, Matt Kroll has had a vision of creating a skills-sharing rural community centre, for crafting and promoting iconic South African items. He is passionately focused now on an off-grid skills-base to aid in creating food-, energy- and water-security as well as shelter solutions.The name of his initiative is Vuka Valley.During the past couple of years, he has focused mainly on “food security.”His pilot food garden project can be seen at ‘T&T by the Sea’ in Port Edward, where he is currently residing: https://youtu.be/UkeKfew8sIUThe food surplus from T&T, as well as seeds and seedlings starter packs has been shared with the less fortunate during the Covid-19 crisis and on an ongoing basis.He has also assisted and mentored repeatedly in the establishment of rural community gardens.One of his beneficiaries is the Ithuba School in Mzamba, situated in the Eastern Cape, where he has recently established a foodscape garden for the school kitchen. There are currently a few more projects on the go e.g. in Ethembeni KwaNzimakwe, its Chief havinggiven permission for the establishement of food gardens in two more villages.The KwaNzimakwe project was initiated by “Secret Sithela.”Vuka Valley Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VukaValleyYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@vukavalley1386Tune into KindaSound Radio every Sunday: https://KindaSound.orgConnect with the KindaSound team on Telegram: https://t.me/ksradioNew podcast episodes every Thursday.