THE KZN FILM COMMISSION EMPOWERS THE COMMUNITY OF PONGOLA
The Kwazulu Natal Film Commission on the 30th of March 2021 visited the community of Pongola to contribute to their development. The CEO, Carol Coetzee and team handed a cheque of R200 000 to the Khula Community Nursery.
Khula Community Nursery is a project by Khula Arts Centre a community-based organisation established in 2009. Khula Arts Centre has been involved in many community development programmes in Pongola rural areas, KwaBhembe area near Dingukwazi High School. The organisation mainly focuses on skills development, social development programs and general community development initiatives.
The Nursery is positioned in an impoverished and underdeveloped rural community. This is where access to nursery supply for seedlings, vegetables, timber and fruits plants will be made easy to avoid the expensive and the inconvenience caused by travelling to neighbouring towns to buy these products. Khula Community Nursery is envisioned to act as a wholesale and retail for communities.
The communities will receive a lot of help as consumers, farmers and buyers. The KZN Film Commission therefore saw the need to fund this project as it has a high potential for developing the community, create jobs as well as contribute to the economy of KZN. One of the key aspects of development at KwaZulu Natal Film Commission is Youth, and this project addresses that as it will employ the youth, in the process address poverty, thereby reduce crime.
For more information visit www.kznfilm.co.za.
About the KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission
The KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission is a provincial state entity, under the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA), in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa established in terms of the KwaZulu-Natal Commission Act, 2010 (Act No 3 of 2010). Its mandate is to facilitate support throughout the value chain to the local and international film industry through creating opportunities and also growing the KwaZulu-Natal film industry.