Community Development, Lifestyle-Sharing & Racial Integration in South Africa | Matt Kroll on Bantu Connection with Django

Since his 20’s, Matt Kroll has had a vision of creating a skills-sharing rural community centre, for crafting and promoting iconic South African items. He is passionately focused now on an off-grid skills-base to aid in creating food-, energy- and water-security as well as shelter solutions.<br />The name of his initiative is Vuka Valley.<br /><br />During the past couple of years, he has focused mainly on “food security.”<br />His pilot food garden project can be seen at ‘T&amp;T by the Sea’ in Port Edward, where he is currently residing: <a href="https://youtu.be/UkeKfew8sIU?fbclid=IwAR1lCaQ4Q6ftoWWA-xNzLIu-vvK9J7j2VeYsUZHlWfwr9Uk_18pg9y6netg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://youtu.be/UkeKfew8sIU</a><br /><br />The food surplus from T&amp;T, as well as seeds and seedlings starter packs has been shared with the less fortunate during the Covid-19 crisis and on an ongoing basis.<br /><br />He has also assisted and mentored repeatedly in the establishment of rural community gardens.<br />One of his beneficiaries is the Ithuba School in Mzamba, situated in the Eastern Cape, where he has recently established a foodscape garden for the school kitchen. <br /><br />There are currently a few more projects on the go e.g. in Ethembeni KwaNzimakwe, its Chief having<br />given permission for the establishement of food gardens in two more villages.<br />The KwaNzimakwe project was initiated by “Secret Sithela.”<br /><br />Vuka Valley Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VukaValley/photos/?__tn__=-UK*F" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.facebook.com/VukaValley</a><br />YouTube Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@vukavalley1386" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/@vukavalley1386</a><br /><br />Tune into KindaSound Radio every Sunday: <a href="https://KindaSound.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://KindaSound.org</a><br />Connect with the KindaSound team on Telegram: <a href="https://t.me/ksradio" target="_blank" rel="norefer