4-H Zimbabwe

Empowering the most vulnerable in communities🙏 We are pleased to witness our Climate Action initiatives changing lives. Empowerment enables women to challenge and change patriarchal norms and power structures that perpetuate #GBV #16DaysOfActivism

Preventing Gender Based Violence #GBV requires a collective effort! Let's work together to create a culture of respect, empathy, and equality. Let us protect women and girls from GBV, discrimination and marginalization. 4-H Zimbabwe will continue to capacitate women through Climate Action, in order to promote their empowerment and leadership. #Prevention #16DaysOfActivism

Yesterday, 4-H Zimbabwe was in Ward 26 in Hurungwe West, capacitating farmers on conservative farming methods with the support from Embassy of Canada to Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Botswana. The total number of attendees was 129, with 44 females, 85 males and 31 youth. Also in attendance was Thembile Phute who is the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives Coordinator. The organisation’s aim is to ensure that the community farmers understand climate change, propose community based adaptation strategies and recommendations for policy advocacy. The Agritex officers from the ward led the demonstrations and educated the community farmers on the pfumvudza process.

At Kushinga garden, Ward 17 in Hurungwe West. The organisation capacitated female farmers in the established women-led community gardens within the wards. The direct beneficiaries from the garden are 80. Therefore, indirectly benefiting over 400 people from the ward. The community members were educated on climate smart and conservative agriculture, specifically focusing on horticulture, as this is what is mostly practiced in the gardens.

4-H Zimbabwe Executive Director, John Muchenje, was the Guest of Honour today at Runyararo Primary School’s Speech and Prize Giving Ceremony. In his speech he talked about the importance of education and discipline amongst the school children. He also encouraged the pupils to desist from drug abuse.He explained how education sets the background of one’s future, emphasising that without education,they will have very limited options in life.

The organization successfully conducted a training of trainers (TOTs) session where it trained 17 Champion farmers from Ward 10, 11 and 12 in Chiwundura Rural District. These Champion farmers will mobilize farmers from their respective Wards and educate them on climate smart and conservative farming methods. The Champion farmers were awarded certificates after receiving knowledge from the Agritex officers. These champion farmers are expected to assist the Agritex officers from their Wards in educating their community members about the most effective ways of farming.

Our host for the Ward 12 pfumvudza/intwasa demonstrations in Chiwundura Rural District, 78 year old Gogo Dhlamini expressed her utmost gratitude for the seeds that were donated by the organization. Her field was fully tilled after the demonstrations, thus lessening her work load. It is 4-H Zimbabwe’s top priority to ensure that vulnerable members in communities are empowered. The demonstrations led by Agriculture Extension Officer Marshall Mlilo were focused on land preparation and the application of chemicals.

Proceedings in Chiwundura. Today we were in Ward 11, continuing with the pfumvudza/ intwasa farming concept education with farmers from the district. The farmers are embracing the knowledge imparted by Agritex officers through the demonstrations.

Today in Chiwundura Rural District Ward 10, the organization held a ward based farmer training session. 82 farmers from 26 villages in Ward 10 were capacitated on the pfumvudza/ intwasa concept. Agritex officers from the ward gave illustrations to the farmers on the concept with specific interest on land preparation and crop establishment phase.

Meet Dorcas Goremsando, one of the women farmers at Shavireshongwa Garden, Ward 25, Hurungwe West. 31 year old Dorcas is a proud mother of three children and is currently unemployed. With support from the solar powered community gardens established by 4-H Zimbabwe , Dorcas and her family have embraced a new path of growing vegetables from the garden and selling them. Dorcas is now able to pay schools fees for her children and they now have access to nutritious food. The women-led community gardens in Hurungwe have positively transformed the lives of the community members.