About ZimSwap
The Zimbabwe School’s Water and Agriculture Programme (Zim) started in 2015 and is a programme designed to assist schools through the provision of solar powered boreholes, drip irrigation and agronomy support, with the aim of providing: – Self-sufficiency in vegetables and associated produce for the school – Income generation through sales of the produce to the surrounding communities – Education for pupils in the skills of growing agricultural produce, its distribution and use to generate income, leading to self-sufficiency.
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
Since its founding in 2015, ZimSWAP has implemented the project in 144 schools in Zimbabwe providing clean and safe drinking water to over 90, 000 school-going children and the community. As a result, since the inception of the project, schools have run viable projects in production of market gardening vegetables such as beetroot, cabbages, green pepper, kale, potatoes, as well as good crop yields of maize. These projects have been life changing and have given much needed income to the schools involved.
The funding for the projects undertaken so far have all been through commercial bank loans at an annual interest rate of 11%, which is the current rate pertaining in Zimbabwe at present. To date there have been no defaulting schools on loan repayments for the projects implemented, despite the economic situation pertaining and the current cost of the project at US$15,000 per school. This is not common in micro lending in Africa.
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