Since the turn of the millennium, the country has experienced devastating droughts due to climate change, resulting in different non-government organisations introducing self-sustaining programmes in impoverished communities to ensure food security and improved income.

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Despite receiving overwhelming support within the local circles, playwrights from the city can all attest to be haunted by the same spirit of failing to make a visible orlasting mark across borders.

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The city came to a standstill. Economies almost came to a halt. Everyone was supposed to stay at home and work from home.

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A widower, Mrs Jane Jonga, (57) one of the gardeners in the commercial section at Green Field Gardens, began to realise the value of turning gardening into a business.

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