"They gave me a windmill, which brought me hope."

A typical farm in the villages in which AWP works will consist of about two acres of land. Those of us who live in crowded suburbs might be forgiven for thinking that with that much land, the biggest obstacle to successful farming has been surmounted. However, it’s next to impossible to cultivate that much ground if one is depending on hand carrying buckets from a nearby water source. Milward and Marigelita Dzonzi are a case in point. They were only able to cultivate about a quarter of their land because that’s all they could manage to irrigate by hand.

All that changed in 2021 when Milward received training from AWP about correct irrigation farming techniques, and, ultimately, AWP provided him with a windmill. That locally produced technology moved him from barely being able to provide food for his six children to producing a surplus that he is able to sell for a profit. He used his first profit of MK200,000 (US $194) to buy a cow. 

“When I was about to give up on irrigation farming AWP came in and taught me to do it the right way,”

Milward explains. “They gave me a windmill, which brought me hope.”