Story by Courage Bushe
THE government’s commitment to improving standards of living for its workforce continues with the Shurugwi Female Prison benefiting from the Presidential Borehole Scheme and business unit programme.
As one of the approaches that has been adopted by the government to boost horticulture production and food security in the country, the government has embarked on an intensive borehole drilling and establishment of business units at its institutions the prison is the latest to benefit from the programme.
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service Officer Commanding Midlands Province, Commissioner Somemore Gate says, the initiative plays a key role in contributing to food security in the province.
“The competition for production among provinces should continue if we are to reach where we want as far as agriculture is concerned. As an institution, we are contributing immensely to the dictates of the National Development Strategy One through farming. We are also playing a pivotal role in achieving food security.”
The government pledged to continue supporting institutions as part of its mission to offer developmental assistance.
“We appreciate working with you, and we assure you that as a government, we will try our best to give support whenever it is needed. I also want to assure you that the Midlands Province will pursue the guidance of his Excellency, the President, to promote food and nutrition and eliminate poverty,” said Honourable Owen Ncube, the Midlands Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution.
The United Nations 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development Goals recognises the centrality of water resources to sustainable development, poverty reduction sanitation, and hygiene.
