Dear Friends,
Another year has given us the amazing opportunity to help our Zimbabwean neighbors. The United States certainly has many hurdles as well, but I want to ask you to consider joining us in the work that we are doing in Mhondoro. Please check out this link to get a quick overview of this next year’s Focus on behalf of Nhimbe for Progress.
If you haven’t read our annual letter with our proposal for 2026 and a report of 2025 activites, please find it here and also the letter from our president, Jan Six. The residents of these villages are incredibly grateful, as their lives have been gradually changing since we began in 1999. We are speaking of not only the six villages that comprise our core, but also of the surrounding villages which are benefiting from our services.
- These days, we are reaching into many local schools for the Mhandara Monthly Care (MMC) program, which intercedes on behalf of maturing girls with weekly meetings, music and sewing lessons, monthly care supplies, and a critical component, soap. Ahh, what we take for granted!
- Additionally, parents will walk their child from wherever they live, through the bush, to benefit from our preschool program where children are prepared for the Zimbabwean school system in a stellar way, while receiving a healthy meal plus early childhood development training. These young ones are excited about learning, due to our staff and the resources we can provide because of our donors.
- We continue to do our best to increase clean water availability. The W.A.T.E.R! program (wells and toilets everyone’s right!) faces huge challenges, being so dependent on weather, soil type, and a larger investment to make a change. But, we persevere. A bore hole, which is the superior way to get water, costs 3 times that of a regular well. For 300 families it would cost simply over $300,000. If you know someone able and willing to help in this way, please share this with them.
We remain committed to bringing assistance to these impoverished communities where normal government programs have not been able to reach. Our goal is to uplift the people and improve the substandard living conditions through increasing resources and education. Your fully tax-deductible donation is what makes it work. However this aligns with your higher purposes in life, we thank you for whatever you can do. You do make the difference! Have a wonderfully safe and joy-filled New Year!
Jaiaen and the Ancient Ways board
P.S. What is this picture? Today we shipped these donated boxes to Zimbabwe. We have sent a box of hand-selected books for the Community Center library, which serves the preschool and anyone who comes. As in previous years, we also are shipping the comforters, pieced with beautiful colors and patterns, to honor the next six elderly women. (In-kind donations of things is an equally great way to share what you have.) Thank you for your ongoing support!