Make Africa Green is a Johannesburg-based consultancy founded by Joseph Matimba, specializing in greening, permaculture, and community development initiatives in South Africa and the SADC region. The company offers training programs on food security, environmental management, and sustainable agricultural practices, aiming to empower historically disadvantaged communities, especially women and youth. In addition to skills development, Make Africa Green supports orchard development, reforestation, and provides essential gardening supplies and infrastructure.

1. Company profile
www.makeafricagreen.co.za

2.  Make Africa Green is consultancy company established by Joseph
Matimba.
 Our strength to deliver solutions in greening and permaculture projects
and initiatives is backed by years of experience.
 Joe has been involved in numerous greening initiatives, food security,
community development and training across South Africa and SADC
region.
 He is one of the most experienced permaculture specialists and
community developer in the country.
 The company has been providing skills development training and
capacity building on food security to subsistence farmers, community
developers, school learners, educators and historically disadvantaged
communities.
 Make Africa Green understands the delicacy balance of human
sustenance and nature’s ecological demands. That is why through
permaculture we can assist beneficiaries to make better use of their
environment.
 Make Africa Green is a company based in Johannesburg
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3.  Our mission is to restore the environment and replenish community health,
dignity and pride through food security, rehabilitation of the environment
and empowering historically disadvantaged communities, particularly
women, children and the youth.
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4.  Skills development
◦ Make Africa Green facilitates skills development and knowledge transfer by
providing food security and permaculture training programmes to
beneficiaries mainly being, learners, youth and women in communities.
◦ The training programmes covers:
 Environmental management education and awareness
 Waste management and provision of appropriate technologies
 Sustainable food production methods
 Basic food security and gardens business management skills
 Container and rooftop gardening

5.  Facilitate orchards development
◦ Make Africa Green assists start-ups co-operatives in semi-urban and rural
settlements especially in schools and communities develop orchards. This
service focuses primarily on the development of fruit trees both exotic and
indigenous.
◦ While food security remains the pivot of service, it also attempts to get
communities into creating their own employment rather than waiting on
Government for hand-outs. It is particularly useful for land claimants as it
prepares them to have skills of managing their own land and being
productive on the land they would have claimed. The service covers practical
training in the knowledge of indigenous and exotic fruit and non-exotic fruit
trees.
◦ We also cover the following subject matters in the facilitation of this service;
 Site identification and analysis
 Fruit-tree cultivar and characteristics
 Water harvesting, conservation and management
 Tree planting and maintenance
 Plant care and management

6.  Re-forestation
 Make Africa Green’s focus on this service is exactly that, re-forest areas that are
most de-forested. This service a programme called South African Re-forestation
Programme (SARP).
 The SARP programme is designed for urban and rural greening activities such as
greening schools, communities, churches and corporate parks.
 This includes restoration, rehabilitation and or reclamation of old mines,
landscape design and recreational parks.

7.  Courses and Training programmes
◦ Make Africa Green offers the following courses that can be facilitated as a class or
workshop programme;
◦ Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
◦ Environmental education and management
◦ Business plan and constitution development
◦ Nursery management skills workshop
◦ Plant and seed propagation techniques
◦ Sustainable natural food gardening
◦ Urban and rural land care for school children
◦ Career guidance workshops for schools

8.  LEARNERSHIP
◦ Make Africa Green delivers a comprehensive learner-ship programme in permaculture land
design, environmental greening and food security programmes for youth and women. This
provides the much needed development for entrepreneurship and job creation in the
country. After completion of the programme learners can start their own businesses such
as food gardens cooperatives, garden services or could be employed in landscaping and
environmental consulting firms.
 Other services
 Provision of all garden tools and equipment
 Installation of water infrastructures include:
◦ Irrigation systems, water tanks, connection and stands
◦ Supply of worm farm equipment/containers
 Plant materials
◦ Supply indigenous trees, fruit-trees, shrubs, vegetable seeds, seedlings, herbs, compost
and mulch (big or standard bales)
◦ We also supply garden tools and equipment. This includes installation of water tanks,
irrigation and gutters to harvest water runoff, conservation & management.

9.  Joe Matimba
 joe@trees.org.za