Helping Indigenous People to Help Themselves
We are happy to share our annual report with you for 2021, as well as our plans for 2022. Many thanks to all of you who are part of the incredible team, which makes this wheel of progress move...We, throughout North America, and those in Zimbabwe, are so appreciative! ...
From the Nhimbe volunteers on the ground, to our board, and all involved, we are enormously grateful for the rapid response to our plea! You have softened the blow of this harsh reality for them. And of course, a lower stress level will certainly ripple into better care of ...
(We’re sorry for the mis-post last night…working out the MailChimp interface ;*)) Today the villagers are facing another unusual hardship. Due to the heavy rains last year at this time, as well as the pelting storms of Cyclone Eloise January 2021, crops were destroyed. Thi ...
With Covid-19 lockdowns many of our regular Nhimbe activities were stalled during their winter, recently ending. Everything is getting back into the spring swing of things. In particular, we agreed to build a marimba hut at our last board meeting in June. All of the cement ...
Since we were awarded additional Community Center land by Chief Nherera, we are now blessed to have a space for the children’s outside activities. We knew it would cost $6,400 to cover the fence and equipment for this space, and now with only just over $300 we will have met ...
We are making lemonade out of the lemons!As you know our Nhimbe preschool yard was consumed by a run-away fire across the bush at the beginning of July. Not only did the aged wooden play structures burn, but the Magaya homestead of Joshua and Matilda also suffered. In both ...
If you received an email about Cyclone Eloise, the post did indeed get sent late last night as a fluke. We were working on the website and are still not clear how it was republished as a brand new post. If you didn't read about it in March when we first posted, please enjoy ...
Just a quick report here, as we don't have all the information, but there has been a fire affecting the Nhimbe for Progress Community Center. . Fortunately, as far as we know, no one in the area was injured. The Center was unoccupied at the time, but Isaac, in char ...
Thank you for your patience while we work with the issues on the ground. I have been slow to update you on the story, as there have been many developments. I prefer less emails and so assume you do too ;*)) . The 12 collapsed wells from the recent Cyclone Eloise, were ...
Long story short: In late January this year, Cyclone Eloise, breaking loose in Mozambique and all over Southern African, stimulated a ripple of storms bringing torrential rains to Mhondoro destroying and damaging crops, structures, and wells on its path, while the Covid-19 ...