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Adam Molai Foundation sets up community Nutritional Gardens

A model nutritional garden project is changing the lives of the community in Rujeko suburb in Marondera. The project was established with the support of the Adam Molai Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture.

The community gardens are intended to enhance dietary diversity through a constant supply of vegetables sufficient to meet the family’s requirements. The project is benefiting 32 families drawn from the community is expected to play an important role in securing their food security.

Nomagugu Nyaundi, Executive Director at the foundation says the gardens will help the community members grow food for their own consumption and also to sell for an income.

“These gardens will help them grow food for their own consumption, and pursue market gardening where the produce they grow gives them an income. They will also contribute positively to preserving the environment,” she said.

The Foundation engaged the local Agritex District office to provide the training at the beginning of February and drilled a borehole at the site of the gardens.

“We assessed 40 homesteads and came up with 24 people for training. Among the skills they were taught were soil preparation, selecting what to plant and how to grow vegetables. Today, we assess them on what they have learnt,” said Mrs Nyaundi.

Mrs Nyaundi said that the project was in line with achieving Sustainable Development Goals 1, 5 and 3 on ending poverty, ending hunger and maintaining good health and well-being and is just the first of many such initiatives in the community.

“This project is ongoing and our plan is that more members of the community get training and gardens set up. Some residents had already planted maize for this season and, therefore, will be due for consideration in the next quarter,” she said.

The Adam Molai Foundation’s current community nutritional garden project is now in its fourth stage and undergoing assessment by both the foundation’s and Agritex officials to determine viability and whether it’s going to be sustainable.