About Us
Moringa 5000 Origins by Jenny Scott
13 Years ago, Brian had a dream in which God told him to feed 5000 people. He woke me up suddenly to tell me we would be feeding 5000 people. At first I thought it was impossible, as at that stage we had very little income, but nothing is impossible with God.
We started meeting with community garden groups, which were all made up by women, to plant moringa trees and teach their communities about the enormous benefits of using the dried leaves. The process was very slow and sometimes we would become very despondent, but we never gave up as we felt God was leading us.
We had some successes where the Moringa trees thrived and the leaves were picked and dried by the community. We have one particular lady, Dumileni, who has been growing, drying, milling and then selling Moringa powder at her nearby clinic ever since. We are so delighted that Dumileni has an income from Moringa, as this is what our ministry is all about.
This Moringa Community Project led to the start of Moringa5000. We began by selling Moringa powder at the Shongweni farmer's market in Hillcrest, South Africa. We would packet the powder into small ziplock bags with a label that I (Jenny) designed and printed. These were extremely small beginnings.
However, we persevered and found some health shops who were interested in selling our Moringa powder. We went on to use the same packaging and labelling that we still use to this day. You can now find us in majority of the pharmacies in South Africa, including in all the Dis-Chems, Clicks stores, plus several others as well as right here on our online store.