Alchemy Project Highlights
(Updated: April 2022)
The Dikuno Tsa Sechaba Trust
Recent Social Investment Achievement Areas
Education
Agriculture/Food Security
Social Welfare & Infrastructure
Digital Connectivity
Enterprise Development / Income Generation
Health
Highlights
Social Infrastructure
Ramotshodi Secondary School
Poverty Allevation: Household Food Gardens - Sebilong and Bakgatla
Dikuno has advanced from the subsistence food security programme to investing in income generating initiatives. Pilot -The Sebilong Women Forum Poultry Farming Initiative
Key Sectors: Education, Health, Agriculture and poverty alleviation
- Ramotshodi Secondary High School – Construction of a new school building
- Modimong Primary School – New Ablution Facilities
- Makgophaneng Primary School – Construction of Ablution Facilities
- Construction of Thabang Children’s Home construction of girl’s hostel
- Donation of Medical Equipment- Ramokokastad Clinic
- Provision of Bursaries to the Sebilong Community learners
- Promoting food security and hunger alleviation by empowering poor households with food garden infrastructure and capacity building (training and required recourses). This initiative started with Households and has extended to a
- school
- Building on that foundation to initiate a poultry farming initiative earmarked to be an income generation project for a Women Forum. A similar initiative in the pipeline targeting a Youth Group
- Empowerment of the community through digital enablement by deploying a WIFI network and supplying internet through the network.
Outcomes and Early Impact
- Improvement of learning and teaching conditions
- Creation of temporary jobs and supported jobs during the implementation of all social projects
- Improvement in the capacity of health system to deliver enhanced quality service to more people
- Commercial participation of local enterprises during the construction phases
- Hunger alleviation/reduction
- Increased development enterprises with access to markets via facilitated off-take agreement partnerships and Trust contributions to help local enterprises meet the requirements of those opportunities
- Access to connectivity (at schools and clinics)
- Improved Health and education facilities in the benefit Area
- Creation of temporary jobs and supported jobs during the implementation of all social projects
