3 EARTHQUAKES In 2024, UMCOR responded to:
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Agriculture and Livelihoods New greenhouses in Zimbabwe fuel education
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Two greenhouses at The United Methodist Church’s Hanwa Mission are helping to fight climate change and improve education at the mission’s schools. With support from Zimbabwe Volunteers in Mission and Global Ministries’ Yambasu Agriculture Initiative (YAI), the Hanwa community constructed two half-acre greenhouses. YAI also supplied fencing, a hand tractor, a trailer, a plow and pedi-wheels as well as pepper seedlings. Each greenhouse generates significant revenue and creates employment for parents of students. These greenhouses will become a major component of the agricultural curriculum at the Hanwa Mission schools, and a major proportion of the fund gen- erated by this project will go directly back into the schools. – Charlie Moore, Zimbabwe Volunteers in Mission team leader, Balti- more-Washington Conference 10 GRANTS AWARDED TOTALING $1.8 MILLION THROUGH THE YAMBASU AGRICULTURE INITIATIVE
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