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Victor Maphosa
Mashonaland East Bureau
A non-governmental organisation, the Zimbabwe Women Bureau (ZWB), has established a community garden in Kabasa Village, Mudzi, for women to engage in agricultural activities.
About 36 women from five villages in Ward 6 are benefiting from the five-hectare garden that is under beans, vegetables, and maize.
The garden is expected to benefit up to 100 women.
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ZWB also drilled two solar-powered boreholes for the project.
Woman Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Minister Monica Mutsvangwa recently visited the garden and applauded ZWB for the initiative.
Speaking on the sidelines of the tour, ZWB executive director Mrs Ronica Mumbire said they seek to empower women in the wake of climate change.
“We are implementing an agro-ecology project that is meant to curb the effects of climate change within Mutoko,” she said
“Climate change has brought up some issues that needed our attention, for example, this area did not receive sufficient rain so the beneficiaries are food insecure, and also they did not have potable water. So we came up with this project to enable women to do agroecological practice.
“Currently the garden has beans, vegetables and green maize. We train them in business development. We train them in value addition of their farm produce. Our main aim is for them to be food secure and be able to mitigate climate change.”
Beneficiaries of this project thanked the organisation for the initiative which they said is transforming their livelihoods.
“This project will ensure our livelihoods are transformed. We will definitely earn some money and be able to send our children to school and be food secure. We thank ZWB for this project,” said one of the beneficiaries, Mrs Rosemary Chiripanyanga.
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