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Borehole for Berending Women Garden

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Borehole for Berending Women Garden

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Project SDGs:
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International Cooperation and Capacity Building (SDG 6.a)
Climate Resilience and Adaptation (SDG 13.1)
Project Tags:
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Conservation Agriculture/Agronomy
Progress to Date: 1 borehole to be dug for watering the garden Borehole for water, watering cans, weeding hoes and pumps
Services Needed: Financial support
Desired Partner: NGO / Civil Society
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Jan. 01, 2023  »  Ongoing
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Water scarcity or drought, REPUTATION: Consumer behavior
Additional Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Planning & Implementation Time: 1 - 3 months
Financial Resources: Between $10,000 - $50,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: public
Project Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources, RESOURCES: Not enough participants, PROCESS: Unclear and/or opaque project governance
Project Source: User
Profile Completion: 67%

Project Overview

This project is designed to fulfill both a need in the community as well as diversify the programs of the women’s group while driving new interest and membership. The LEAD garden project is designed to provide a sense of community, economic, self sufficent feeding and educational component, while instilling pride and ownership in growing our own produce.

Unintended Consequences

Insects spoiling the products and uncontinue submitting the benefiters to keep growing crops round the cycle.

Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Water scarcity or drought, REPUTATION: Consumer behavior
Project Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Months & Implementing: 1 - 3 months
Financial Resources: Between $10,000 - $50,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: Public funding
Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources, RESOURCES: Not enough participants, PROCESS: Unclear and/or opaque project governance

Missed Opportunities

Sustainance of repairing and maintenanceing the fence of the orchard to protect animals from entering in the garden

Unintended Consequences

Insects spoiling the products and uncontinue submitting the benefiters to keep growing crops round the cycle.

Project Narrative

LEAD enables aspiring and established leaders to explore, with fresh eyes, the implications of sustainability for their organizations and their leadership capacity for the future. We support individuals and organizations to realize their potential to be catalysts for change and to thrive in a future that may seem impossible by today's rules. We have firsthand experience of how individuals are able to challenge conventional ways of creating, learning and being, to become major catalysts for change.

Partner Organizations


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James Gibba
Primary Contact  

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