Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods

Reviving a community oasis

by Higherlife in Disaster Relief and Preparedness, Health, News, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted November 7, 2023

At 74, Gogo Sophia Chandomba Pantazis spends most of her days confined to her homestead in Nevanji, a village in Mutasa District, in rural Zimbabwe. Nevanji village, like most areas in the eastern side of Zimbabwe, has a relatively dry climate, receiving an average of 450 mm of rain each year. As early as April, ...

Key Lessons we learnt from working with Government

by Higherlife in Our Work, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted August 25, 2023

Our Reimagine Rural Agriculture has just come out of a successful season. Their good relationship with the Government has been singled as one of the key drivers of the progress recorded. They shared a few lessons they learnt from working closely with the Government. Below are some of them: Understand where there is a need ...

Higherlife Foundation’s divine appointment

by Higherlife in Faith and Development, Our Work, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted August 22, 2023

“Some of the children we get here will be coming from the street,” Faith Karumbidza says. Even before learning Faith is a former solider, you have a strong sense that she is firm, disciplined and the type of person needed to set teenage boys on the path of redemption. Karumbidza oversees the Northcot Training Centre ...

Keeping the fight alive: How a 74-year-old grandmother keeps her boys in school

by Higherlife in Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted June 22, 2023

It is mid-morning in Madziwa, a village in Mashonaland Central’s Shamva North District, 137 kilometers northwest of Harare. Gogo Agnes Kasaira leans on her crutch for balance. She is rising from the footing of her rondavel kitchen, and the wall helps her gain ground. Soon as she is upstanding, Gogo Kasaira calls her 15-year-old grandchild, ...

Government lauds Higherlife Foundation

by Higherlife in Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted May 2, 2023

urges HLF to reach more farmers with climate smart agriculture Higherlife Foundation’s climate-smart agriculture is a good example of how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can complement national policies, a top Zimbabwean governmental official has said. Mashonaland East, Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, Ms Apollonia Munzverengi, said the programme, which has reached about 11,000 farmers nationwide, is ...

Why there are more women than men in RRA?

by Higherlife in Blog, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted March 31, 2023

Figures reveal that 65% of farmers receiving support under Higherlife Foundation’s Climate Smart Agriculture Program are women. This translates to 7,150 women out of the 11,000 farmers receiving inputs and technical support. The numbers are not a coincidence. They are a result of deliberate program design and decision-making. Reimagine Rural Africa General Manager, Barbara Chivandire, ...

When strength meets passion

by Higherlife in Blog, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted March 31, 2023

Grandmother uses agriculture to triumph against personal crises. It is just after lunch in Madziva, a farming village in the Shamva North District of Mashonaland Central in Zimbabwe. Gogo Theresa Chikwenengere welcomes me into her homestead with a teeming smile. At 72, she exhibits impressive fitness. I struggled to keep up despite being more than ...

Supporting farming communities toward a more food secure Zimbabwe

by Higherlife in Our Work, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted May 10, 2022

Smallholder farmers are the ones who put food on our tables. They are the ones who care for our land and water resources. In the end, they will be the ones to propel the economic growth and development of Africa in the 21st century and we at Higherlife Foundation firmly believe this. Through our ReImagine ...

10 Facts About the World Water Crisis

by Higherlife in Our Work, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted December 14, 2021

784 million people around the world are without basic water access. That’s more than twice the population of the United States. More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war. Two billion people, or about 1 in 4, lack access to a toilet or latrine. Diarrheal diseases, caused primarily by unsafe water and poor ...

Pfumvudza training renews hope in Shamva

by Higherlife in News, Our Work, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted December 2, 2021

Lorraine of Ward 11 in Shamva entered into a marriage at a young age. At 21, she is already raising two children with her 24-year-old husband in the mining town in Mashonaland Central. The couple struggles to make ends meet, as Lorraine is a full-time housewife who spends her days caring for their children aged ...

Reviving a community oasis

Key Lessons we learnt from working with Government

Higherlife Foundation’s divine appointment

Keeping the fight alive: How a 74-year-old grandmother keeps her boys in school

Government lauds Higherlife Foundation

Why there are more women than men in RRA?

When strength meets passion

Supporting farming communities toward a more food secure Zimbabwe

10 Facts About the World Water Crisis

Pfumvudza training renews hope in Shamva

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