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Melody Mashaire Herald Reporter
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has installed a 1,68-kilowatt solar-generated electricity worth $42 180 at Nyatsato Primary School in Rushinga as part of efforts to adapt and mitigate climate change, UNDP country director Ms Verity Nyagah has said.

In a presentation made on the commemorations of the UNDP’s 50th anniversary, Ms Nyagah said the solar-generated electricity had brought benefits to the students, teachers and community at Nyatsato School.

“The school is now looking into ways of monetising the excess electricity so they can earn revenue to, among other things, maintain the solar system itself,” she said.

Ms Nyagah said the environmental benefits of the new solar system installed at the school were tremendous.

“Students from Nyatsato and surrounding schools now use the classrooms at night for additional studying,” she said.

UNDP communications specialist Mr Sammy Mwiti said the installations included training of local school teaching and management staff to ensure that they understood the system and were able to use and maintain it.

“The Rushinga project was part of an initiation named ‘Strengthening National Capacity of Climate Change in Zimbabwe’ undertaken in co-operation between the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate and UNDP Zimbabwe,” he said.