In January – March 2025, Skills & Soup at The Hub continued to provide 125 children and adolescents in Morija and surrounding communities with weekly after-school tuition, nutritional meals and life skills.
Overview of The Hub’s Skills & Soup programming
- 125 weekly participants ranging in age from 8-18 from Morija and surrounding villages.
- The participants attend the programming free of charge.
- Provides daily after-school tutoring in:
- STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) subjects
- Mental health and well-being
- Daily programming including sign language lessons and educational clubs during school holidays.
Skills & Soup in 2025 Q1
Through January – March 2025:
- 61 sessions held
- 3,050 meals served
Meals at Skills & Soup
- Prepared by Cafe Mojo, a female-owned and run business.
- Daily highly nutritious hot meal includes protein (mostly plant-based), fortified starch, and vegetables.
- Daily highly nutritious take-home ration includes 2 loaves of locally baked fortified brown bread, peanut butter, boiled egg, and fruit.
- The Hub has eliminated single-use plastic by participants bringing their reusable containers.
Thanks to Cafe Mojo, this harvest season Skills & Soup participants learned about preserving peaches by canning:
Support from the Lesotho Nutrition Initiative enables The Hub to provide highly nutritious meals for the 30 youngest and most food-vulnerable Skills & Soup participants 5 days/week:
- 1,090 meals served in Q1
- Highly nutritious meals reverse the long-term effects of malnutrition in children
Skills & Soup catering supports local businesses in Morija by purchasing:
- 250 loaves of bread from a local female-owned and run bakery weekly
- Eggs and seasonal vegetables from local farmers weekly
Skills & Soup Outreach in Q1:
- 2 outreach sessions at Taele Primary School and Thuto Ke Leseli High School – monthly outreach to rural, digitally excluded schools providing an introduction to coding using tablets and Scratch, as well as mental well-being lessons.
Hub Talks at Skills & Soup in Q1:
- 2 Hub Talks – monthly motivational talks by visiting entrepreneurs, artists, students, professionals and activists.
The Hub’s garden:
- Aims to increase food security with fruit and vegetables for Skills & Soup participants to take home
- Promotes organic and sustainable farming practices, and adaptation to climate change
- In Q1 Skills & Soup participants harvested organic vegetables and fruit:
- 300 kg peaches
- 25 kg green beans
- 50 kg tomatoes
- 75 kg pumpkin
- 10 kg grapes
- 30 kg leafy greens, and much more!
Sign Language at Skills & Soup in Q1:
Sign language lessons continued in Q1, with Lineo Hlaha leading 2 sessions
Peer Tutoring Saturdays in Q1:
Weekly Peer Tutoring Saturdays began in February, with Skills & Soup top achievers across a range of subjects tutoring their classmates, helping to lift others up and dedicated to each other’s success!
Additional activities at Skills & Soup in Q1:
Bursary support for students:
The Hub is supporting 30 Skills & Soup participants with school, exam, uniform and other educational costs in 2025, with funds raised through a crowd funding campaign.
Click below to support the Given Gain crowd funding campaign:
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