The Tlholego Development Project is a "seed" community for developing sustainable rural economies based on long-term cultivation of the soil, water, plant, animals and human resources in the surrounding watershed or "bioregion." The Tlholego model moves towards a systemic solution to a series of crucial issues facing the sustainability of our global community at this time. This model brings humans and earth into a mutually enhancing relationship and focuses on the transformation of poverty (land and people) into environmental, human and social capital. The model provides short-term solutions to meeting day to day needs and is grounded in a 10 to 20 year strategy for long-term sustainability.

Perhaps one of the most valuable aspects of the Tlholego project is that it provides an opportunity for people from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds to meet in a safe and nurturing environment, to explore differences and common ground and celebrate possibilities for a life worth living. This ongoing process of intergenerational learning provides a holistic context to grow social and human capital, creating a healthy foundation for realizing the unique opportunities that our "world in crisis" presents us with today.