The impact of late rains and large failures in yields has put significant strain on a small village in Limpopo, who started looking elsewhere for food and what they found was purely a miracle.
The rural village of Tooseng on the eastern border of Limpopo, South Africa has seen little rainfall during the year and this has put significant strain on a community already dependent on grants and welfare.
In recent years the community started planting Moringa and using the dry powder to sprinkle over their food. The most incredible discovery was the effect Moringa leaves have on HIV patients. Patients affected with the virus, showed a visible difference in their immune system after receiving Moringa for seven days.
Moringa contains other vitamins and minerals such as calcium equivalent to four glasses of milk, the vitamin C content of seven oranges, the potassium of three bananas, three times the amount of iron in spinach, four times the amount of vitamin A found in a carrot and twice the amount of protein in milk.
Moringa Oleifera has changed the nourishment of the community and what started out as a subsidiary project, the community is now making a profit from selling the Moringa leaves.
The community aims to sell Moringa to the rest of South Africa and support other villages and communities with similar needs.
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