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Since the project’s inception at the end of 2016, quarterly oversight trips from the U.S. to Zimbabwe have been taken to ensure that the ZimFarm Project’s program goals were being met in compliance with the food aid mission. Day-to-day oversight is handled in-country and provides employment and empowerment opportunities to women living in the community. These included the previous agriculture manager, Mr. Maxwell Tauro, who was responsible for all aspects of planting, cultivating, and producing our successive successful harvests of maize, potatoes, sugar beans, and carrots.
Mr. Tauro worked closely with the farm manager who was responsible for securing quotes for products and services for approval or disapproval. He also maintained records of all expenditures which are routinely forwarded to our in-country lawyer.
Final decisions on every aspect of project management which would require disbursements of funds that have been accrued through self-capitalization and the sale of the remaining portion of crops which have not been donated are used in furtherance of the project objectives such as clean water, sanitation, housing, the expansion of sustainable farming techniques on which the local community will be trained. Additionally, the launch of solar energy as a renewable energy source to power various initiatives is planned.
Mr. Talkmore Maunga was the project’s groundskeeper who was responsible for the grounds and fruit trees. His responsibilities also included preventive maintenance and safety in accordance with project policy and standards. All of the aforementioned individuals are provided the necessary safeguards to ensure that the project was secured and that tasks, which significantly relate employment of women who harvested the crops to address food insecurity in the community are completed on budget.
Teamwork and management are crucial to the management and distribution of salaries and payments to itinerant farmworkers is transacted using U.S. dollars, to indemnify the project from the potential negative impact that may arise from currency fluctuations, and ensure that all donations are used in the full measure without devaluation.
Flush toilets attached to a septic system are a vital necessity to an overall sustainable development program designed to empower and improve the lives of the people living in a rural farm community in Zimbabwe. Currently, beneficiaries of the Zimbabwe Farm Project are housed in temporary clapboard houses without heat or indoor plumbing. Your donations will help build permanent housing, which will facilitate improved sanitation to increase hygiene, health, and waste disposal via the installation of a complete sanitation system. This includes the purchase and installation of a septic tank, indoor plumbing, and flush toilets. At present, hygiene consists of bucket bathing and outdoor sanitation. The number of workers and people living in the community who have access to flush toilets is quite low. At project start-up, a temporary sanitation solution through the use of an outhouse also known as a pit latrine. Though pit latrines are the norm, indoor plumbing attached to a septic tank is the best way to ensure that groundwater remains uncontaminated and free of pathogens. Costs to empty the pits are nominal, but often are incorrectly disposed of because it requires chemical treatment. Also, pit latrines are often odoriferous and fly infested, and are an inefficient sanitation solution. Please help us to improve these living conditions for the people served by the Zimbabwe Farm Project. We appreciate your support!
Flush toilets attached to a septic system are a vital necessity to an overall sustainable development program designed to empower and improve the lives of the people living in a rural farm community in Zimbabwe. Currently, beneficiaries of the Zimbabwe Farm Project are housed in temporary clapboard houses without heat or indoor plumbing. Your donations will help build permanent housing, which will facilitate improved sanitation to increase hygiene, health, and waste disposal via the installation of a complete sanitation system. This includes the purchase and installation of a septic tank, indoor plumbing, and flush toilets. At present, hygiene consists of bucket bathing and outdoor sanitation. The number of workers and people living in the community who have access to flush toilets is quite low. At project start-up, a temporary sanitation solution through the use of an outhouse also known as a pit latrine.
Though pit latrines are the norm, indoor plumbing attached to a septic tank is the best way to ensure that groundwater remains uncontaminated and free of pathogens. Costs to empty the pits are nominal, but often are incorrectly disposed of because it requires chemical treatment. Also, pit latrines are often odoriferous and fly infested, and are an inefficient sanitation solution. Please help us to improve these living conditions for the people served by the Zimbabwe Farm Project. We appreciate your support!
For the fourth planting season, after successful maize and sugar bean harvests, carrots were planted. Unlike our first harvests where irrigation was necessary, this planting season has received excessive rain causing rapid and extensive weed growth. In lieu of herbicides, and in keeping with the mission of increasing employment in the community, especially for women and girls, we hired them to tend and weed the fields. The first two crops we chose to grow were maize and sugar beans, both staples of the Zimbabwean diet. Once these fields were harvested we decided to grow root crops. Carrots are classified as a root crop and grow best in cool weather. They are an incredibly nutritious source of vitamins, including K, B6, and C among others. The rich orange color that typifies carrots is due to carotene, which is converted into Vitamin A when we eat them. Vitamin A is a powerful antioxidant which has a critical role in maintaining healthy vision and neurological function. Carrots are high in fiber and sugar, which makes them the perfect to eat, whether cooked or uncooked. When harvested, they are washed, but it is advisable to rewash them prior to consumption.
