“She needs to be helped because nobody is working and Norah is not well,” said a Barclays staffer.
“Initially we wanted to extend her house but because of the problem of squatting, we found the idea of a mobile garden more sensible,” she said.
According to Oduetse Mpahudi, the brains behind the mobile garden, dubbed the Barclays ABCD “ 4X4” Home Garden, if Enock were to be evicted, she would be able to carry her garden with her and continue to feed her family.
In the garden, the family has planted herbs and a variety of vegetables, which are a good source of nutrition. The family will also be able to sell the surplus to make little money and perhaps take the young children to school.
At the moment, the children have quit school and Enock hopes to take them back next year.
“I was suffering before now,” she said adding that now a lot more people wish to copy the idea in order to feed themselves.
Barclays is also sponsoring a similar project in Gapatswa for another destitute family where the husband is blind and so are their two little boys. The mother is not working.
