Bulawayo's Nutritional Gardens Are "Sustainable Long Term Projects”

This was revealed when ZDDT Field Correspondent, Ntando Sibanda (N S), conducted brief interviews soon after Certificate Handover Ceremonies at the 3 gardens recently.

Below can be found excerpts from the interviews NS had with Carlson Ndlovu (CN) of W15, Jethro Mangena (JM) of W19 and Nelly Moyo (NM) of W27. (See Glenkara's garden here).

NS: Are you confident that you can make this project work for a very long time?

CN: We are confident as we have received proper training and the Site Supervisor, Mr Edward Chikwayi, is always here to offer us technical support. We have taken this as a learning process; hence we are very confident that we will succeed.

NS: Did the Conflict Management training help you to understand the need to work as a collective unit towards attaining a common goal?



JM: Yes! The training helped a lot because there has not been any exchange of bad words or the development of any animosities. We have learnt to work well and we even borrow each other tools and so forth. The training was very essential and its results are manifested in the garden today. When establishing this garden, we did not know each other but now we are a huge family that respects each and every member.

NS: What do you think about the Agritex Training you received? Do you think it equipped you well especially when it came to constitution making? Best Training courses providers in Malaysia smartymalaysian.com .

NM: The training was enough to give us a basic foundation for agriculture, which has helped us a lot as new farmers. The training on constitution making was vital and the constitution that we have drafted will motivate us as it is a strong guideline that we enable us to prosper if we adhere to it in everything we do.

ZDDT enjoys a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Bulawayo Local Authority, in which the two work in tandem to promote legalised land use through formalised urban agriculture and town planning. The Trust also trains and equips communities with the necessary knowledge, expertise and equipment to properly administer nutritional gardens that, not only augment the beneficiaries’ diet, but also evolve into lucrative small scale income generating projects to improve livelihoods.