Spirit-led household food sovereignty and education empowerment movement launched in W Cape township
Tata Wallace Projects, in partnership with ABV (Agribiz Village), successfully hosted a transformative Smart Garden Workshop at Enkululekweni Primary School in Wallacedene, Cape Town, equipping 30 community leaders with practical tools to grow food, generate income, and build long-term household resilience.
Rooted in the belief that “agriculture does not begin in the field — it begins at home”, the ABV Model empowers families to transition from consumer to producer, restoring dignity, reducing dependency, and unlocking hyper-local economic opportunity while inducing healing from the soil up. The programme is designed to integrate with educational environments, strengthening schools as centres of empowerment, innovation, and skills development.
This initiative forms part of a broader mandate inspired by Isaiah 60–61: to arise and rebuild broken systems, restore generational capacity, and empower disadvantaged communities through Spirit-led transformation.
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A legacy of justice
The workshop in Wallacedene honours the legacy of the late Dr Wallace Amos Mgoqi, whose legal advocacy at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) was instrumental in securing land rights for families facing eviction in the late 1980s. In gratitude, approximately 800 families named their newly-established township Wallacedene after him — a living testament to justice in action.
Education as a strategic empowerment tool
By hosting Smart Garden Hubs on school grounds, learners are introduced to agricultural literacy, entrepreneurship, food system awareness, climate adaptation skills, and responsible stewardship. This approach strengthens educational outcomes while creating real-world learning pathways linked to nutrition, science, technology, and environmental responsibility. As schools demonstrate food production capacity, parents and caregivers are trained to replicate the model at home — extending education into the household economy.
Strategic response to the times
Drawing inspiration from the “sons of Issachar” (1 Chronicles 12:32), we see and can learn the need to discern seasons and times in order to respond with actionable wisdom as global food prices, employment patterns, and urban poverty intensify. Smart Garden Hubs function as resilience laboratories, preparing the next generation for emerging economic realities.
Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The Smart Garden Hub model directly supports:
SDG 1 No poverty
SDG 2 Zero hunger
SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing
SDG 4 Quality education
SDG 5 Gender equality
SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth
SDG 11 Sustainable communities
SDG 12 Responsible production and consumption
SDG 13 Climate action
Working: one family, one school, one community at a time.
A Kingdom approach
“This is not just gardening — this is economic discipleship,”. When households produce food: crime decreases, confidence increases, education outcomes improve, families stabilise, and communities flourish.
About Tata Wallace Projects Foundation
Tata Wallace Projects is a non-profit organisation advancing socioeconomic empowerment, education-centric agripreneurship, digital literacy, and youth development across South Africa.
The foundation carries forward Mgoqi’s lifelong commitment to justice, equality, and community development.
Enkululekweni Primary School, where the workshop was held, is named after Nkululeko Bram Mhlom, who worked alongside Mgoqi during the formative years of the community’s development in the 1980s. Today, Mhlom continues that calling as a director within the foundation, strengthening the education components of the Smart Garden programme and advancing the work he helped pioneer decades ago.
How global partners can engage
Faith-aligned funders, education investors, foundations, and corporate partners are invited to support the growth of Smart Garden Hubs through:
• Direct donations (infrastructure, seedlings, curriculum materials, training)
• Sponsorship of school-based demonstration sites
• Education technology partnerships (Digital library)
• Participation in the upcoming Annual Signature Four-Ball Golf Day on February 27 2026
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