Gardening save me - making bad choices

Sibusiso Mpanza 36 started a vegetable garden as a distraction to avoid getting with bad crowds and focus on being positive while he is unemployed. He is one of the many people in Dipaleseng that is unemployed and and depends on the vegetable garden and odd jobs he finds around the community like doing gardens, building shacks and general handyman jobs. The reason he chose to focus on doing a vegetable garden is because he developed the love of gardening from his parents. “My mother and father were the ones to taught us how to do gardening but did not have the money to buy seeds. I received seeds for free from Topsy and that has been a huge benefit for me since I am unemployed like many young people in my community. Trying to earn a living is hard these days. The gardening help ease the stress of poverty because each day I can receive something to eat that’s free and healthy from my garden. I even get to receive the Rice and nutri-go powder food. This nutri-go is so good; it gives me strength after eating it. I enjoy it a lot with the rice we receive from Topsy. Me I'm lucky because other people have to do bad things to get food like steal. I am glad I can just garden." "I used to see Topsy Foundation when I was growing up doing wonders to the lives of my community. Now that am part of their program gives me great joy. Topsy is the reaching hand to disadvantage homes in our community."