The Eastern Cape Province remains a significantly rural province with a very rich socio-economic and political history from which future generations can draw strength. It is a province that is endowed with important natural resources, including land, soil, wind, rivers, oceans and human capital. However, the Province remains generally underdeveloped with glaring proportions of unemployment, poverty, substance abuse, gender-based violence and inequality.

The Community areas of Adelaide, Bedford, Cookhouse and Somerset East, where the Cookhouse Wind Farm Community Trust operates, had shown willingness to participate in the design of their own socio-economic freedom. The communities need a platform to the wealth creating space where socio-economic development opportunities are made possible.

The mandate of the Trust includes realization of the broad-based socio-economic development and empowerment of its Beneficiaries. The Board of Trustees took a bold step to re-orientate and develop a concise organisational strategy that shall guide critical interventions to enhance socio-economic development within those beneficiary communities. The strategy is underpinned by the following pillars:

• Administration and Finance

• Agriculture, Land and Housing

• Education and Development

• Health Care