{"id":8264,"date":"2020-02-24T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T09:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"zimbabwe-solar-boreholes-boon-for-rural-gwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/24\/zimbabwe-solar-boreholes-boon-for-rural-gwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Solar Boreholes Boon for Rural Gwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communities in Gwanda got a major boost after a local non-governmental organisation Hand in Hand Zimbabwe (HiH Zim) facilitated the installation of solar-powered boreholes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project running under the Green Enterprise Project is meant to transform livelihoods of rural people across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HiH Zim has installed four solar-powered boreholes at four community gardens in the district, a development that has seen farmers in the area increasing crop production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gwanda, which falls within agro-ecological Region V and receives annual average rainfall of 477mm, has a record of many cases of crop failure.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The district has not experienced above normal rainfall over the past 10 years and meaningful crop production is only under irrigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The installation of the solar boreholes has, however, brought relief to villagers, many who struggled to sustain their crops as they had to travel long distances to fetch water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result of HiH Zim&#8217;s intervention, most gardens in the area are thriving with an array of crops such as butternut, potatoes, tomatoes, beans and chomolia, as well as nursery trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities in Gwanda got a major boost after a local non-governmental organisation Hand in Hand Zimbabwe (HiH Zim) facilitated the installation of solar-powered boreholes. The project running under the Green&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}