Why your money matters...
Thanks to the support of people here in the UK, in the last 3 years we have helped 9 million people turn their lives around for the better. We have helped people fight injustice and discrimination, overcome poverty, and gain the skills and knowledge they need to stand up for themselves and their communities.
Here is a story of just one of these communities…
These women live in Wedza, rural Zimbabwe; a place where poverty, food shortages and low income make life a daily struggle. Families survive on as little as $1 per day and mid-season droughts make farming, their only source of income, increasingly hard to depend on.
With Progressio’s support these women farmers have turned their lives around. They can now send their children to school, they can feed their entire family and they can feel safe knowing that tomorrow there will be food on the table.
Progressio supports people in poor communities by sharing the skills and knowledge they need to lift themselves out of poverty.
We placed Melody Kwanayi, a specialist in agro-ecology, to work alongside these women in Wedza. Melody demonstrated ways they could improve their crop yields and diversify their crops, introducing them to varieties of leafy vegetables, potatoes, tomatoes and onions, which are all highly nutritious and sell at a higher price at local markets.
Because of the knowledge Melody passed on to this community these women have now tripled their income from $1 to $3 per day.
And it doesn’t stop there!
Melody has also passed on her skills to our partner organisation, Environment Africa, which works throughout Zimbabwe and the Southern African region to champion, protect and conserve the environment. As a result women farmers across Zimbabwe continue to be empowered to transform their lives, all because of the work of one Progressio development worker.
We need to raise money so that this vital work continues.
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Thank you!
