amaTrac uluntu (NPO 115-029)
(Formerly The Farm Animal Centre for Education (FACE))
COMMUNITY-BASED SMALL BUSINESS TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
One Health One Welfare
People in villages and townships in which we work lack knowledge on animal care and sentience and thus have not developed acceptable ways of treating animals. Environmental health is also neglected.
They view animals, particularly working donkeys and dogs, as “different” from humans and therefore have no empathy with animals. However, we have realised that compassion is grasped and internalized quickly and easily by children and adults.
Our One Health One Welfare work enables people to recognise the interconnections between animal welfare, human wellbeing and the environment.
We accomplish this through Humane Education, rowing food using Permaculture techniques and Environmental Education and.
Humane Education empowers people with knowledge on animal sentience, their welfare needs and the connections between humans and other animals.
Donkey traction for food security
Permaculture allows people to grow organic healthy food sustainably using organic available resources. Donkeys and their owners form an important part of this system
Environmental awareness
Deforestation of the surrounding mountains causes loss of indigenous forest, erosion, loss of ecosystem services and loss of the ability for the natural vegetation to abate the impacts of climate change.
Our work empowers people to understand and to restore degraded areas.
Khayalethu Agricultural Resource Hub
amaTrac uluntu assisted a group of people to set up an Agricultural Resource Hub in Khayalethu.
The purpose of the Hub is to supply vegetables, seeds, seedlings and permaculture food garden training to the people of Khayalethu and surrounding villages.