In 2022, our first ever project in Zimbabwe was a mushroom farming program that provides employment, business training, and a sustainable income for a community suffering from drought. Adding oyster mushrooms to their permaculture gardens has shown many benefits, as it requires less water but yields much more than other local crops, and it has a lower carbon footprint.

ZimConserve has successfully trained 50 people and generated over $10,000 in income.

The profit enabled 300 individuals to access education, health, and improved livelihood.

This is what our beneficiaries shared in their most recent progress report :

Participants obtained significant and predictable income through farming and selling high-value mushrooms at fair prices, building households’ resilience to infection and disease, including HIV/AIDS, through improving nutritional status. In recent times, Zimconserve has facilitated project beneficiaries to increase their income through a range of mushroom farming consultancy projects for schools, churches, commercial farms and private owners.

The project has enabled both participants, their families and the wider communities to improve their lives through increased and sustainable income, better nutrition, improved gender relations and paying school fees for the children of participants, who otherwise would not complete their schooling. The income has been used to meet medical bills, school fees and to purchase groceries among sundry other households’ requirements and needs.