Our Success Stories
Discover inspiring success stories from INMED South Africa, showcasing impactful initiatives and transformative journeys in healthcare, education, and community development. Learn how INMED SA is making a difference and changing lives across South Africa.
A recent survey indicates that 4 out of 10 children in Johannesburg are obese. One way INMED South Africa fights this obesity epidemic is through a new Health in Action initiative called “Break Time Buddies.” Break Time Buddies are unemployed youth who have graduated secondary school and are recruited by INMED via local school governing boards.
In partnership with tertiary institutions, such as Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth and Wits University in Johannesburg, they are trained to lead fun physical education activities while promoting nutrition and healthy lifestyles during daily recess at 116 schools. /…
An Educator With Farming In His Blood
Jarren Gangiah, a Grade 7 Science teacher at Charles Duna Primary School in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, is no ordinary science teacher. /…
Farmers Of The Future Embrace INMED Aquaponics®
Our INMED South Africa team enjoyed talking with two young interns from Nelson Mandela University at our aquaponics system at the Missionvale campus in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape. /…
A Path Out Of Poverty – Khunedi Mashishi
Perhaps the most compelling example of the transformational impact of INMED’s Health in Action programme, and the epitome of what INMED South Africa strives to accomplish with this programme, is from one of the student participants. Khunedi Mashishi was a fifth-grader at Paradise Bend Primary School in Diepsloot, Gauteng, when our team at INMED South Africa first met her. An avid runner, Khunedi has big dreams of competing in the Olympics one day. /…
Gardens Of Hope In The Free State
Rainbow High School and Repholositswe Secondary School actively serve students in two impoverished rural communities in the Free State, South Africa, which endure high levels of violence and crime. /…
Overcoming The Burden Of Hunger
In a poor rural community of South Africa’s Free State province, Pietrus Moshoeshoe found himself responsible for 66 extended family members (47 of them children) after his father passed away. /…
A Brighter Future For Disabled Producers
Rosie Mateko worked as a teacher in South Africa for 14 years before suffering a severe stroke that left her disabled and forced her to resign from her educational career. It was difficult for Rosie to come to terms with what had happened to her, and she felt a deep sense of loss in addition to the pressure of having to support her four children and two granddaughters as a single, disabled mother. /…
Strengthening Livelihoods in Limpopo
The Thabelo Christian Association for the Disabled (a struggling farming cooperative located in a remote mountain village in Venda, Limpopo) works to feed and support an extended household of approximately 40 family members. /…
Nutrition And Revenue For Disadvantaged Schools
Educational institutions in disadvantaged communities increasingly turn to aquaponics to provide more nutritious meals for students, serve as an educational resource and generate income for school operations. For example, /…
Nurturing A Crop Of Young Entrepreneurs
Each year, the Grade 7 students in Port Elizabeth are required to start an entrepreneurship initiative as part of their school curriculum. This year, INMED South Africa encouraged Seyisi Primary School /…
Female Farmers Win Top Agriculture Prize
Life in Pella, Northern Cape, is hard. With high unemployment and few options for employment, combined with a prolonged drought, there’s not much hope to go around—unless you know the Pella Food Garden Cooperative. /…