Women On Farms Project | 81 Bird Street, Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch 7599, Western Cape

Women on Farms Project (WFP) is a registered South African non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with women in commercial agriculture, mainly in the Western Cape Province. The project grew out of a 1992 Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) initiative aimed at meeting the specialized needs of women who live and work on farms (farmwomen). WFP was formally registered as an independent NGO in 1996. Historically, WFP operated through a network of Vroue Regte Groepe (VRG) or womens rights groups on farms. However, by the late 1990s, there was a growing awareness of the vulnerability of donor-funded NGOs which forced the organisation to grapple with the critical question: What will be left behind if we close our doors tomorrow?