Maori Primary School

children_from_maori_visit_the_new_school_site Maori Primary School in Mashonaland Central is a rural school serves 150 families living in the six surrounding villages. Current enrolment is 350 at boy to girl ratio of 45:55. The families served by this school are subsistence farmers and farm workers who rely on farm produce income to survive. Click here for more information.

Nyachuru Secondary School

ZimKids provides agricultural inputs for a year-long lunch program for 559 students and staff at Nyachuru Secondary School in Howard. This rural school has advised us that the lunch program, which has supported by Canadians since 2006, ensures good attendance by the students and improves learning outcomes. The school and community provides all the labour required for preparing the land, seeding, fertilizing and harvesting. In recent years the region has experienced a severe drought and we have been supporting the school’s efforts to experiment with growing more drought resistant sorghum to replace some of the maize crop. In 2021 they harvested 4.48 tonnes of sorghum, 5 tonnes of maize and 1.16 tonnes of sugar beans. All planting and harvesting work is done by parent volunteers who cannot afford to pay school fees.

Shingirirai Trust

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ZimKids imports and sells batik tablecloths and aprons from a women’s co-operative that’s part of Shingirirai Trust, in Mabvuku. All the income generated is returned to the women, who in turn support Shingirirai Trust’s pre-school program for vulnerable children, from the sales. In 2018 ZimKids started to work with Glass4Africa, an upcycled glass project also run by woman in Mabvuku, who are supporting Shingirirai Trust’s programs.