She looks forward to acquiring more skills during her nine months of industrial attachment and then starting her solar business. USAID Takunda RFSA, through technical and vocational education and training (TVET), targets youth aged 15 to 29 to attend center-based training at local Vocational Training centers (VTCs) like Marange and Magamba in Manicaland Province and Mshagashe in Masvingo Province. Takunda has a deliberate effort toward female participants to increase gender-equitable income amongst the chronically vulnerable youth, girls, and women in Mutare.

Whoever said installing solar panels and setting up a solar system is a man’s job did not have Nomore Murima in mind. After three months of attending Vocational training at Mshagashe Vocational Training Centre, Nomore (a female participant from Mutare Ward 9) is enjoying her industrial attachment in one of the solar companies in Jerera, Zaka. 

In her blue reflective work suit, she smiles her way up the ladder to the rooftop while the other two male workmates race behind to install a multi-panel solar system in one of the company’s customer’s offices. She is later seen testing the invertor and assuring her peers that indeed power was going through. 

“It is an exciting experience for me; I get a lot of people wondering how a girl can set up a solar system. Before Takunda, I never thought I would one day be up on these roofs doing Solar installation,” said a bubble Nomore.

“It is an exciting experience for me; I get a lot of people wondering how a girl can set up a solar system. Before Takunda, I never thought I would one day be up on these roofs doing Solar installation,” said a bubble Nomore.

She looks forward to acquiring more skills during her nine months of industrial attachment and then starting her solar business. USAID Takunda RFSA, through technical and vocational education and training (TVET), targets youth aged 15 to 29 to attend center-based training at local Vocational Training centers (VTCs) like Marange and Magamba in Manicaland Province and Mshagashe in Masvingo Province. Takunda has a deliberate effort toward female participants to increase gender-equitable income amongst the chronically vulnerable youth, girls, and women in Mutare.