Thought Leadership

We want communities to be able to make food for themselves, we saw during covid’s hard lockdown people did not have money.

An impressive garden project is underway at Emshukantambo Secondary School in Pimville – to create an extensive garden as part of the Agri Planting initiative.

The programme is specifically targeted at supporting under-served communities in the Tshwane metropolitan municipality. The townships include, Soshanguve, Temba, Stinkwater and Hammanskraal.

In August 2020, Seriti Institute launched the “Work.Learn.Grow” programme in the small community of Mfidikoe, situated in the North West province.

Seriti Institute is a development facilitation agency that works to develop marginalised communities. After COVID-19 struck in South Africa, we saw clearly that the most pressing need was for food relief and for alternative food provisioning systems.

Daily Maverick Article: “Death of starving migrant results in much-needed supplies for neglected Waterworks community”.

Seriti Institute partnered with Care for Education and Londani Lushaka to provide children in Alexandra township with duplo sets.

This Mandela Day volunteers from community organizations affiliated to the People’s Coalition will be out in force for ’67 minutes of messaging’.

Seriti Institute is constantly working in communities to help bring development where it is needed the most. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that responds to the needs of our country's under-served communities.

Seriti Institute welcomes the judgment handed down by the Pretoria High Court on the matter brought by us against the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs relating to the Community Work Programme (CWP).