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AAPDEP: All African People's Development and Empowerment Project

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Well for Farm Irrigation in Zimbabwe

Country: Zimbabwe

Location: Southern Africa

Partner Organization: Ujamma Youth Farming Project Established in June 2005, UYFP is an African youth-led farming cooperative that has secured a 100-acre plot of farmland in the city of Gweru under the Zimbabwe government's land redistribution program. UYFP's mission is to empower African youth through gainful farming initiatives so that they are able to demonstrate the essential skills necessary to function as life long productive citizens of Zimbabwe's agrarian reforms.

Project Start Date: November 2007 (Phase 1: Resource Development & Project Design)

Project Summary: AAPDEP has taken on a project to construct a 50m deep borehole (pressurized well) for irrigation of a 25-acre section of farmland owned by the Ujamma Youth Farming Project in Gweru, Zimbabwe.

Analysis: For more than ten years now, the people of Zimbabwe have been forced to endure severe hardship due to the hypocritical economic sanctions that have been imposed on the country from the US, EU, World Bank, IMF and others in response to the Zimbabwean government's land redistribution program. This program was implemented in order to resettle landless Africans on land illegally occupied by white settlers whose ancestors stole it by the force of the gun during the colonial era. Currently, Zimbabwe has an unemployment rate of around 80%, suffers with the highest rate of inflation in the world, and has been hard hit by drought and lack of funds for farming initiatives. AAPDEP's participation in this borehole project will help to support the efforts of UYFP to provide valuable training, employment, and of course produce to the people of Zimbabwe.

Skills Needed: Engineering and Well Building

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