Bulungula Incubator

Bulungula Incubator and Bulungula Lodge are in the community of Nqileni Village in the Eastern Cape. Nqileni Village must be one of the most remote villages in South Africa. It has no road, running water, toilets, clinic or electricity. The closest clinic is a 2 and a half hour walk and the school is a tin shack on a hill with 2 rooms for 200 children.

The village is home to 780 people of which 350 are under 18 years of age. Bulungula Lodge is a community owned backpackers lodge, one of the first backpackers in the world to be Fair Trade accredited. Bulungula Incubator is an affiliated non-profit organisation.

Bulungula Incubator The Bulungula Incubator aims to support the community through various projects. With our donors' generous assistance, Breadline Africa is supporting a project to create a food garden and kitchen attached to the school to feed the children and to be used to train the community. This project is a wonderful example of how a community can benefit in so many different ways from tourism and that capital that tourists bring.

Other projects include:

• Crisis School Rehabilitation Programme - Rebuilding the school and working to improve education.
• Gardening Project And Vegetable Seeding Project - The set up and support of a nursery and vegetable garden run by community members as micro-businesses
Kids Farming Competition - Annual competition to encourage children to learn more about sustainable agriculture.
• Clean Water Project & Toilets Project - All community members benefit from the Clean Water and Toilets Project. Currently the community use the forest for ablutions. Since the heavy rains wash the sewerage into the rivers and springs and there have been serious dysentery outbreaks.
• Water Tank Project.
• Micro-Enterprises Research Project.