Who, what and where…
Growing Nations is a Christian organization working with volunteers. The organization is involved in mission by means of agricultural projects. Growing Nations comprises of two trusts, the Lesotho Evangelical Church Growing Nations Trust and the Lesotho Evangelical Church Maphutseng Property Trust. LEC is one of the larger churches is Lesotho. In practice this means that Growing Nations is an independent organization with a legal status and, as an enterprise, guarantees own operations and management.
The management team consists of 8 local people together with 3 expats. The management is accountable to a management board. Additionally there are 6 students in training, 22 pastors, 20 lead farmers and 230 farmers involved.
More information about the work of Growing Nations will be found on www.growingnations.co.za. All updates relating to our work at Growing Nations can be found on our website.
Growing Nations from AIM On-Field Media on Vimeo.
How it all started…
One day my colleague, August Basson, walked to a small church in the mountains of Lesotho. He came across a man who was cultivating a new piece of land for use, at a slope of 50°. August asked him why he was working there. His answer was that his own piece of land on the other side of the mountain was completely exhausted and the crops that grew there could no longer support his family. He knew that in two years time his land would be washed away, nothing would be left. A healthy piece of land destroyed. The man was convinced he had no alternative. He had never heard of conservation agriculture. A concept which Growing Nations supports since then… working a piece of land in such a way that it does not get exhausted. That is now 8 or 9 years ago. Growing Nations currently has a training centre and a project site in Maphutseng.
