Goedgedacht Trust
South Africa
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Established in 1993 the Trustees looked for ways to make the development work sustainable. The beautiful old Cape Dutch buildings have been restored creating a very special 67 bedded venue for conferences, workshops, weddings and retreats. At the same time the farm has been planted with olive groves now producing organically grown olives that are either bottled or cold pressed into a top quality extra virgin olive oil and marketed under the Goedgedacht label. The Goedgedacht Trust works on three levels. At a national level the Goedgedacht Forum for Social Reflection, now 12 years old, keeps an eye on the fault lines in our society by encouraging and promoting dialogue around issues of national importance. On a regional level three organizations working in the Swartland/West Coast started out at Goedgedacht farm and are now operating successfully as independent organizations. At a local level the Trust’s “Path out of Poverty Programme” (POP) is working very successfully to help poor rural children find ways out of the desperate cycles of poverty which have trapped farm worker families for many generations.
