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====Permaculture Gardens====
[[Image:Permaculture garden.jpg|thumb|right|150px|One of the gardens]]
These gardens, used to grow crops not only provide the food used within the centre. They also provide a template for which crops to grow, when, how to maintain the soil, etc. to make full use of the climate and ground in the area. Rather than simply growing crops once a year due to the droughts, principles of permaculture are used to grow a variety crops throughout the year. Women from the local community have also successfully begun to use the skills introduced here and build their own gardens.
====Nutrition Kitchen====
[[Image:Nutrition Kitchen.jpg|thumb|right|150px| Women working in the nutrition kitchen]]
Here it is demonstrated how people can use the crops grown in the gardens are used for provide a nutritious diet. Other than education about health and diet, skills are taught such as how to clean crops and preserve surplus food through drying, bottling, smoking, etc. A group of local women started a business together with the CART, which bottles food and sells it for some extra
====Waste Management====
[[Image:Biodigestor.jpg|thumb|right|150px|CART biodigester]]
CART did research on what would be the best method of waste management for a village such as Sicambeni. Ultimately, they decided a bio-digester was the solution. Conventional bio-digesters are extremely expensive, so they designed a new, cheap one, which could be constructed from locally available materials.