A Bulawayo-based organisation V² Enterprises yesterday conducted a workshop targeted at promoting the growing of oyster mushrooms in Matabeleland.
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The organisation, which seeks also to promote young farmers to diversity into production of cash-crops such as mushrooms and other vegetables, held the training in Umguza between Friday and yesterday.
V² is a charity organisation which provides support to child-headed households in Bulawayo. It has stabilised the lives of at-risk youth by providing reliable assistance with food, education, and the cost of utilities, along with workshops that capitalise on their already formidable entrepreneurial instincts.
V² has 36 youth mushroom growers in Bulawayo and it seeks to double.
According to V² executive officer Thenjiwe Nyoni the objectives of the training workshop were to develop food security and knowledge hub for both V² trainees and other interested individuals, organisations and institutions.
“The objectives of the training are to impact skills and knowledge on the practical aspects of small-scale mushroom cultivation, enlighten the participants on the economic and culinary value of oyster mushrooms,” she said.
“We are currently supporting 19 households from Nketa, Nkulumane, Sizinda and Tshabalala suburbs.
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“From each household we are working with the eldest orphaned child known as a ‘Child head’. These youth will be assisted in the training and our facilitator was Cathy Sharp, a mycologist.”
V² strives to provide for children orphaned by Aids resources that a parent would otherwise provide for example food, education, healthcare and shelter.
