I Have Learnt So Many Things - Otilia Mnkandla

Ward 27 Community Action Team member, Otilia Mnkandla, of Pumula South, said she can now better take care of her family, adding she has become a responsible mother, courtesy of the ZDDT/Sally Foundation value-addition cooking programme from which she said she learnt a lot of things.

“I have learnt so many things from this programme as a mother. I learnt how to become a hardworking mother and to be a mother who takes care of her family,” she said.

“I have been taught how to prepare so many dishes.”

She said, with the knowledge acquired by participants, even if the fathers in the homes are not working, mothers can support their families.

“I can now pay rent and educate my children, even if my husband is not working. I can stand for that now,” she elaborated.

“We were also taught that we need to be those mothers that are jacked-up. We have been taught not to waste food. We were also taught how to dry bananas, apples and other fruits, something that I did not know.”