Helping Indigenous People to Help Themselves
Please join us for the 10th Annual Dance for Africa Benefit at Cozmic Pizza tonight December 30! A great entertainment lineup includes Iche’le and the Circle of Light, Kamatama from Kenya, and Kudana Marimba. This benefits non-profits working in Africa including Ancient Ways,Tariro, and Friends of Kenya Schools and Wildlife. There will be African Arts and Crafts for sale. Come, dance and enjoy great food and drink!
Marimba Classes are ongoing on Mondays (two levels of Intermediate classes, plus 5 year olds), and on Tuesdays (a youth class at 4, and adult advanced beginning at 7 pm). If you are a beginner and are interested, whether an adult or child, please feel free to email us. Potential beginning class times are Mondays at 7:30 in Albany, or Tuesday at 5:30 in Corvallis.
There is still time to make your fully tax-deductible donation for 2011! By going to www.ancient-ways.org you can read about our partnership with Zimbabweans, which is uplifting rural residents and improving sub-standard living conditions, educational opportunities and access to health care. Contributions can be made directly online; Paypal can process your debit or credit card (by signing on as a Paypal guest). We are entering our 13th year and invite you to join us in making a grassroots’ difference! Please consider how you can be a part of this determined heartfelt and unified team effort – shinga moyo! Tatenda! Thank you!
This 2011 video clip shows the joy of the girl guides who received 3 pair of panties in response to our “Underwear for Over There” Campaign. Many more girls received underwear but were not present at this Girl Guides Life Skills Learning Retreat in late August. In 2012, we our expanding the campaign to be “Underwear and Monthly Care for Over There” to help meet the personal health needs of our young women.
We are in the midst of envelopes and emails, sending you the latest news from the home front in rural Zimbabwe. Please keep your eyes open for this opportunity to connect. If you aren’t on our mailing list (you will know within the week) please feel free to send us a quick email or call us with your contact information. Thank you for your ongoing support!
Our Nhimbe Marimba team was invited to participate at the annual prize-giving day at two of our local primary schools visit homepage. Prize-giving days are an event held each year at schools in Zimbabwe to recognize the outstanding students. Some of our own Nhimbe students were among the recipients of the awards! Our boys and girls provided a marvelous performance! Normally they play marimba, sing, dance accompanied by drums and hosho. We were able to rent a truck for the cost of mileage reimbursement and get the marimbas moved easily. Not really sure how all of the children got to the schools but am assuming they walked since its a small truck. This great performance resulted in another invitation for the November 22nd at a Secondary school within about 20 kilometers from our Center. This will be another opportunity for the boys and girls to shine! We have written a grant requesting help with our Nhimbe marimba program from Zimfest Association and if we succeed we will be able to provide the marimbas with much needed restoration. Its very exciting to hear about the growth of the children and their ability to perform!
Just as the sun was coming up over the horizon, ZESA rescinded their offer to install the electricity at the “unbeatable price”. It has been suggested that after the first of the year they will be ‘in the money’ again and the offer might return. Very typical of dealings in Zimbabwe, it’s not said and done, until its done. Back to the wait list you can find out more.
ZESA, the electric company responsible for getting electricity to many homes in Zimbabwe, is proposing bringing the wiring from the main road to the Nhimbe Community Center for a reasonable fee. We will be partnering with a local business to do this. Currently we don’t need electricity but may eventually, as part of a future clinic, school, or business. Our solar panel are sufficient for our current needs but this has us ready for growth!
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Our Donhodzo Health Center provides services to anyone who comes to its doors without charge. We offer conventional approaches, traditional herbs, alternative methods and counseling. One of the alternatives is that our Senior Nurse has been trained in NMT (see nmt.md) and has had great success. An adjunct to this is a new program that he will be setting up, so that practitioners from the US may remotely treat village residents with NMT. Ancient Ways will obtain tests, blood for instance, CT-4, etc., as part of the before and after comparison for clinical purposes as the need exists.