grabouw is a town full of cows and they wonder around our streets and townships quite freely, however all this is going to change with some local government legislation that means that the cows now need to be kept off the streets.....and here within lies the problem, these cows belong to local xhosa men who measure their wealth by the amount of cows they own, however these men don't own any land to keep the cows.....this is where the village of hope has come to the help of the local municipality as we were asked to if we might have some 'spare' land for these cows to live.
over the weekend we welcomed a team of very energetic xhosa men onto the village of hope, where they have put up some temporary fencing, temporary in the fact that we will only be providing the land for a three month period not that i think that their fence will be stolen like our other fencing (which we are now busy replacing ourselves...more on that one tomorrow)....and today we saw the thirty cows on the land for the first time....
...what with great meetings with both cape peninsular university of technology and elgin learning foundation it is now looking like we might be producing our own veg, wind power and maybe a bit of steak for the braai....we are moving forward and continuing to make a difference to our community in very practical ways.
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