Change can start with a bundle of onions
Chengeto’s family is on a new path towards better health and immunity, and self-sufficiency with skills in biointensive farming.
Chengeto’s family is on a new path towards better health and immunity, and self-sufficiency with skills in biointensive farming.
An important component of Bopoma Villages’ agricultural program is training families and communities in methods of rainwater harvesting.
Like most people in rural Zimbabwe, Bridgette is a subsistence farmer. Her family survives on what she can grow and sell. However, a lack of farming skills and poor sanitation at her home kept her family trapped in the downward spiral of hunger, illness, poverty, and despair.
The Vushe family used to live in extreme poverty and suffer from poor health. With clean water and training in biointensive farming and simple health strategies, that has all changed. There are solutions to extreme poverty that work.