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Budiriro Mumapurazi Quarterly Newsletter
Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe (FCTZ)
March - May 2007

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Editorial

The Protracted Relief Programme (PRP) with funding from the Department for International Development (DFID) aims to assist the poorest and most vulnerable households in Zimbabwe suffering from the effects of rainfall failures, economic decline and the HIV and AIDS epidemic. As a member of the PRP programme, Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe (FCTZ) implements a number of activities designed to boost food production by the poor, to improve access to water as well as provision of care to the chronically ill persons. FCTZ implements these activities in former large-scale commercial farming areas and rural informal settlements in the four provinces of Mashonaland East, West, Central and Manicaland. FCTZ target groups are (ex) farm workers and other vulnerable groups in these areas.

In line with the PRP aims, this newsletter focuses on promotion of household food security, income and sustainable livelihoods. The newsletter will publish case studies of groups, households and individuals who will showcase the impact of the organization's sustainable livelihoods programme. The case studies will show the impact of nutrition gardens, livestock pass on scheme and conservation farming programmes being implemented in Chihwiti/ Gambuli settlements in Makonde District of Mashonaland West Province.

At household and community level, nutrition gardens have provided vegetables and culinary herbs. The livestock pass on scheme has improved households' dietary options, nutrition, food security and income while conservation farming, a technology ideally suited to poor farming households, has seen vulnerable groups increasing their harvests in recent years. However all is not on a bed of roses. Challenges ranging from limited access to water and land are being experienced. Programme challenges and proposed solutions are also published within the case studies showcased.

As usual, the newsletter will also publish the case stories on people living positively on HIV and AIDS. The Children Section, which promotes the voice of the children and whose current focus is Health, will also be published. Your comments and views are welcome. Thank you.

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