Completed projects:
Pilot Water Project at Chishoshe Primary:
Final Cost: $7,000
House of Stone completed its latest project at Chishoshe Primary School in the Chegutu District. Chishoshe Primary serves about 500 students and hosts 10 staff who live on the grounds. The school has no electricity, and had no running water and very limited teacher housing. After consultation with the headmaster, parent leaders and with community imput, it was decided that constructing a borehole to provide reliable water was their highest priority. Our project was completed through our local partner JF Kapnek Foundation Zimbabwe in the spring of 2023. The school now is able to provide clean drinking water to its students, as well as support limited agriculture, raising chickens and growing vegetables, both to expand food for the students and as a form of income to subsidize the schools limited funding. Within 2 years they are expected to be financial independent. The Herz HD Stiftung (a German foundation that Arnd Herz also co-leads) has already been applying that learning to the next 3 schools (Kawara, Nyamweda and Makuvatsine.)
Future projects:
Our Moonshot: Water for Every School in Chegutu
Estimatesd Cost: $300,000
Imagine a district where every child learns at a school with clean, solar-pumped water — where teachers no longer walk for miles with buckets, gardens flourish beside classrooms, and communities thrive around their schools.
That’s our moonshot:
to bring safe water to every school in the Chegutu District of rural Zimbabwe. Out of roughly 250 schools, about 50 still lack access to water on their grounds. Each solar borehole costs about $6,000, serving an entire school community — hundreds of children, teachers, and families.
With every borehole drilled, we move one step closer to a district where no child learns in thirst and every school can grow its own future.
Together, we can make Chegutu the first district in Zimbabwe where water, learning, and dignity flow side by side.