Helping Indigenous People to Help Themselves
Summer Greetings! This has been an enormously expansive year for our music programs here, and an extremely challenging time to continue our Nhimbe for Progress services in Zimbabwe. It has taken me months to get my brain around how to share the details, as we were hit every ...
Late spring Greetings!Is this for real? It’s been extra chilly this spring, so plants have been hiding out inside and going into the earth and the deck pots quite late, but now this weekend's temps are going into the 80’s and 90’s, of all things!UPCOMING PERFORMANCES in MAYT ...
Our Mhandara Monthly Care (MMC) program continues with great success, as a direct result from your support! We already have 267 girls on the wait list for 2023. So far, we have only connected with our nearby Nhimbe girls and three other schools (Rukuma primary and Gavaza pri ...
There is much gratitude we share in this post…thank you ever so much for your ongoing support! We can’t do it without you. Those who have sent the funds that you want to earmark for one or more of our programs have come through. You have made our planning for 2023 a workable ...
We are very happy to share our annual letter with you - click here! Although later than usual, its still packed with a great update from the President of Ancient Ways, our Nhimbe team in Zimbabwe, and an exclusive report from our office here! Many thanks to those ...
Early winter greetings from here in Lacomb and summer greetings from Zimbabwe! Some rain has started for them, but is slow coming at this point. Our well building lid painter is busy painting as many lids as possible before the land begins getting soaked. We are hopeful that ...
The Nhimbe for Progress Preschool has been in operation for 20 years! Wow…what an achievement! Febby Shava has been in charge this entire time and, like a good wine, is only getting better with time. I would think it would get harder as one ages (I’m recalling she is in her ...
Your rapid and generous response has made it possible to give a go-ahead for building the four elderly widows’ wells! It is with incredible gratitude that the members of Nhimbe and all of us involved say “Tatenda Chaizvo”. You know, over there, when one person sees tha ...
End-of-summer greetings to all! We are deep in the well building process for the nine wells that were donated this year, and that is very exciting. The rainy season is coming soon enough, and these wells must get completed before then. We are making good progress, but, wh ...
Hope this finds you and yours well, and enjoying your summer. The weather variability is one of the hottest topics of conversation all over the world. It is sizzling here for our little web feet…the frogs and ducks prefer more moisture! LOCAL MID-VALLEY UPDATE We have be ...