Improving Livelihoods and Food Security of Youth

Summary

This project support 1000 youth with small garden and off field seeds to improve food security and livelihoods optins at family level in Chimanimani Rural District Council of Zimbabwe

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $25 was raised for this project.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The project will benefit 1000 youth in Chimanimani Rural District Council in Zimbabwe in addressing hunger and food security challeges affecting youth headed households. The project will support youth with small garden seeds and sustinable agriculture training for youth. The project will reduce unemployment and increase income levels from garden proceeds and improve their livelihoods

Activities

In providing sustinable agriculture training and provision of garden and off field or back yard gardens seed will help youth to plant crops that will provide much needed food and sale of extra proceeds to earn an income.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $25

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $25 .  The original project funding goal was $20,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will improve the livelihoods and food security of 1000 youth to provide much needed food to their families and improve nutritional levels in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe

Project Message

The project through our garden have managed to provide food for my family of 8 .
- Lucia Chakara aged 24, She is youth aged 24 supporting her family of 8

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Jack Bbabbie Mukulu
Executive Director
13 Victory House, 3 rd Floor
Aerodrome Road
Mutare, Manicaland Box 1504
Zimbabwe
+263 912 374937
Email:

Organization

Family-In-Need Trust of Zimbabwe
13 Victory House, Aerodrome Rd.
Mutare,
Zimbabwe

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Zimbabwe and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Zimbabwe, read the Human Development Report on Zimbabwe or the Wikipedia entry for Zimbabwe.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 24, 2010