The Mupo Foundation was established in 2007 with the key objective to support communities to strengthen their own resilience and to revive, transfer and practice indigenous ecological governance systems as integral to sustainable livelihoods, cultural identity and biodiversity conservation

The Mupo Foundation's vision is a world where communities have control over their food production and land; where biodiversity and sacred natural sites are under the custodianship of clans who have ancestral responsibility for protecting "Mupo"; and where the community, especially women, are empowered to govern themselves according to their cultural values and norms, to understand their constitutional rights and speak for themselves... Vision statement, The Mupo Foundation

Objectives

1. Enhance food sovereignty and livelihoods by enhancing traditional agricultural knowledge and practices and reviving indigenous seed diversity to better cope with the impact of climate change.
2. Build climate change resilience and capacity to mitigate climate change and pressure on land and water, by protecting and restoring important ecosystems and sacred natural sites and strengthening community governance of these ecosystems.
3. Support a responsible youth and young people in navigating the challenges of the future, by asserting their identity and responsibilities through the support of inter-generational transfer of knowledge on culture, biodiversity and livelihoods.
4. Support women's leadership roles and rights, especially their capacity to assert their leadership, exercise their rights and responsibilities in terms of indigenous knowledge and governance systems, and exert their influence on national and international policies and treaties.
5. Increase government commitment to the protection and recuperation of biodiversity, culture and sacred natural sites, the support of food sovereignty and the land and ecological rights of local communities.

Currently, The Mupo Foundation works in the Vhembe District, a former Apartheid independent homeland known as Venda, in Limpopo, the most northern province of South Africa; mostly in Thulamela Municipal area, with seven minority indigenous clans - Thsidzivhe, Tshiendeulu, Mphaila, Vhutanda, Tshivale, Ramunangi, Khwevha - and with a community-based organisation, Dzomo la Mupo.

Mupo is registered as a Section 21 Company
Public Benefit Organisation PBO No. 930025787
Tax reference no: 9009/137/19/2

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 333, Vuwani, 0952, Limpopo, South Africa
Tel: +27 15 962 5846

Director
Elfrieda Pschorn-Strauss
Tel: +27 824130502 / Fax: +27 8650 92328 / E: eps@intekom.co.za

Project Coordinator
Mphatheleni Makaulule
Tel: +27 794935200 / E: luvhola@yahoo.com

For further information please visit www.mupofoundation.org