What Gives Me Appetite | Chido Govera, Mushroom Farmer

Chido Govera is teaching mushroom cultivation to hundreds of people in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa, the Congo and also women from India, orphans from Columbia and many other. At the age of 11, she was elected one of 15 orphans to participate in a fungiculture project. She knew only poverty and hunger. Chido understood this opportunity as a possibility to give future to her community. She was even able to pay the fees and send her brother and other orphans to school. Chido decided to continue working with mushrooms to be able to simplify the process and therefore teach more people. In 2009, Chido was awarded the „Sustainability Award“ by the „Specialty Coffee Association of America“ for her sustainable project of reusing organic waste from the coffee industry to cultivate mushrooms.

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