Ngadya led a team of 30 students in creating Soyabiz, a project that boosts the incomes of small farmers while combating hunger and malnutrition. The project was initially carried out in the Mount Darwin area, 50 km from Harare, where hunger, unemployment, and hopelessness are endemic. Soyabiz provided rural small farm holders with finance, business, and entrepreneurship skills and adapted the village bank model developed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. With improved access to credit, farmers were able form a cooperative and process soybeans into soy-related products, thereby netting increased revenues. In the future, Soyabiz hops to connect farmers to larger markets, including corporations, hotels, and institutions of higher learning.

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