Agriculture Skills Training

This project has been in operation since 2017 and was first launched in Mazabuka (Southern Province) at Namulonga School for Grade 6 up to Grade 9. Over the past few years the project has further been launched at Mazabuka Girls Secondary School, James Corboy Primary School, Flamboyant School for the Disabled, Mwembeshi Secondary School to name but a few of the beneficiary institutions that has been empowered with this project.

Our organisation and its partners and donors work alongside the partner educational institutions to implement this Agricultural Skills Training Social Enterprise that serves as an Income Generating Activity (IGA) for the partner schools.

All proceeds from this Social Enterprise are reinvested into the project for self- sustainability and self sufficiency purposes and any profit/surplus from the cost price after retail is utilized by the school for developmental and maintenance projects such as drilling of boreholes, building of classrooms, building restoration, electricity bills, labour costs, teacher salaries, books, toilet paper etc.

We work hand in hand with the school's Agricultural Science teacher and the schools Production Unit to provide skills training lessons and hands on experience to pupils in the growing and distribution/retail of crops such as Tomato, Okra, Maize, Cabbage, Onion as well as Poultry Farming, Fish farming and Livestock Farming (Goats).

The skills that are taught and that the pupils implement are life skills that they can depend on as adults should they not have the finances to go to college or university.

This project is about teaching pupils in rural and peri urban areas how to live and survive in a self-sustainable manner through small scale farming and supply whilst simultaneously empowering educational institutions with an income generating activity  that strengthens and enhances their overall self-sustainability.