A two-hectare community garden in Sizinda, a high-density suburb in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, enables Zamile Ajiti to feed and send her five children to school.
With support from Australian philanthropic organizations Sally Foundation’s Global Development Group and Direct Aid Program, 180 poor households, including Ajiti’s, grow a range of vegetables for their own consumption and sale.
“It has improved my life,” she said in an interview with Devex. “I am able to meet my children’s school needs like their bus fare to and from school.”