Mambanje Community Garden, Zimbabwe

Food scarcity and hunger remain massive challenges for many of the communities where we operate. The shortage of water, low levels of rainfall during the rainy season, and poor soil conditions make the planting and harvesting of a variety of crops increasingly difficult for communities in the Hwange area. 

Our community-run garden in Mambanja is equipping, empowering, and enabling the community to grow and produce crops that they can harvest to feed their families and sell to generate economic activities for themselves. The garden has 50 beds 3x3m that can support about 50 families. We installed the boreholes and solar power in the garden to ensure that the garden has an adequate water supply and fences the property. Additionally, we conducted soil assessments and harvesting training at the garden to identify the best crops that can grow in that soil and educated and empowered the community on how to make the best use of the garden by planting crops that will grow faster and healthier.

This garden continues to add educational and economic benefits for the community through training and shifting their focus from subsistence farming to more commercial farming.