Our partnership with Bopoma Villages

Zimbabwe is dealing with serious health crises. Diarrhea is the 5th leading cause of death for children under 5, along with HIV/AIDS. 60% of people lack adequate sanitation facilities while 20% lack access to clean water.  The rural region of Zaka, Zimbabwe is home to around 200,000 people. After years of no rain in this region, heavy rains resulted in flooding and destruction of homes and gardens.

Our partnership with Bopoma Villages enabled their Healthy Homes Project to address the ravaging impacts of extreme poverty, malnutrition and illness, impacting 554 people in rural Zimbabwe through eight practical, proven and sustainable solutions. These include providing clean water through BioSand water filters, teaching people how to develop highly productive vegetable gardens using biointensive agricultural methods, helping women and girls avoid exposure to toxic smoke through easy-to-build rocket stoves, teach effective, locally developed methods of capturing and storing rainwater and 4 other simple, but powerful, interventions. The Healthy Homes Project improves health through nutritious food, clean water and better hygiene. It also gives families agricultural skills they can use to grow surplus food to sell to pay for school fees and other essential needs. Addressing multiple risks simultaneously greatly increases the overall impact on health and capacity, strengthening and empowering families to create better lives for themselves and their children.