WAZIGA CHARITY OUTREACH

Waziga supports five charity organizations in Zimbabwe. Our target is to raise at least 10% of each charity organization’s annual operating budget. We continuously evaluate our outreach programs with a view to enhance long-term self-sustaining projects for the charity organizations we support. Waziga also sponsors on special occasions Zimbabwe top junior golfers to enable them to compete at international junior golf championship tournaments such as the prestigious Doral World Junior Tournament in Florida USA. Our primary focus is on the following charity organizations that all in all take care of over 300 orphans. Our long term goal is to have at least one charity organization in all 10 major cities in Zimbabwe.

Hope Tariro Hope

It is based in Chinhoyi about 120 Kilometers from the capital city Harare. Hope Tariro Hope houses 10 orphans on campus 6 years and younger. Hope Tariro Hope has a program that seeks foster homes for the orphans when they turn 7 years and start to go to school. They are times when they keep orphans older than 7 years if no community family takes the child. In 2009 Waziga contributed to the start of a piggery project that hopefully will generate more revenue in the years to come.

St Warbergs Primary

It is based in Mutare about 260 kilometers from the capital city Harare. On the picture to the left the principle is pictured with 50 orphans who lost both parents to AIDS that Waziga sponsors annually. St Warbergs Primary school has a total of 295 orphans who have at least lost one parent to AIDS. Waziga sponsors 50 orphans with tuition. Our goal is to sponsor more orphans who would otherwise fail to attend school. In 2010 Waziga is campaigning for the 10 most gifted kids from this school to secure tuition for them through high school education. It takes US$30 per year per child to sponsor with tuition annually.  A US Fifty Dollar donation will cover uniforms too. These boys and girls to the right are straight “A” students.

Alpha Cottages

It is based in Masvingo Zimbabwe about 300 kilometers from the capital city Harare. Annually they accommodate 33 orphans from the ages of 4 to 16 years and at times they are forced to double their capacity given economic challenges and the impact of AIDS in Zimbabwe. Alpha Cottages has separate open plan dormitories for boys and girls with 2 caregivers in charge of each dormitory.  Older kids act as mentors to the younger kids. During school terms Kids have an opportunity to mix with other kids at public schools they attend. However during school holidays the 33 orphans have very limited interaction with other kids in Masvingo city. Christmas time is the hardest for the orphans. At Waziga we sponsor field trips that take them to game parks and other tourist attractions during the Christmas Holiday.

Emthunzini Wethemba

David Ndoda, founder and resident superintendent of Emthunzini Wethemba, came up with the idea of setting up a Shelter of Hope for street kids in Bulawayo during his regular prayer meditations. Zimbabwe has a growing problem of street kids. AIDS orphans find themselves on the streets to survive. David Ndoda started first by simply providing food to street kids from his office. The office soon evolved into a `drop-in centre,' eventually feeding 20 boys and four girls.

Ndoda faced initial difficulty setting up the shelter. He facilitated a meeting between a group of reporters and some street children. The children showed the reporters the appalling conditions with which they had to cope. The following day, an article appeared in the newspaper with a picture of some of the children.

This made it possible for Ndoda to start fund raising. He found an old research centre that had been empty since 1962 and, in October 1992, moved in with six street boys. They had one sleeping bag and a few pots to cook with under a tree. The boys slept on sheets of cardboard. Ndoda's wife joined the group in November.

Emthunzini Wethemba has since grown into a shelter with 39 boys and 15 girls, complete with boys' and girls' dormitories, a kitchen, classroom area and garden. It offers children the chance to go to school or to attend skills training centers around the city.

Ndoda proudly cites three examples of children who have benefited from this training. One now owns his own carpentry and metal-working business, another is a welder married with a child. The third works at a local garage having completed a two-year car maintenance course.

Ndoda aims to help the children develop leader-ships skills and to make their own decisions. He tells them, `You will not always remain a child, but while you are here, discover your purpose in life--only you can tell us what you want to do.'

Mother of Peace

The Mother of Peace Orphanage community based in Mutoko Zimbabwe was founded on the precepts and faith of the Catholic Church, but opens its arms to all regardless of colour or creed. It was set up in 1994 as a response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It provides a home where orphans can be given shelter, education, and healthcare and are brought up in the security of a loving Christian family atmosphere.

The survival of Mother of Peace Community depends exclusively on donations from well-wishers and supporters from all over the world, and from their own self-reliance programmes such as farm produce.

With approximately 130 resident orphans to care for, in addition to providing on-going support for children who have been successfully reintegrated into their wider family group, MOPC needs substantial support to meet the running costs while it builds up its Income Generating Activities.

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Below Alpha Cottage Campus

Below Alpha Cottages Director Mr. Mapuranga

Below Map of Zimbabwe at the Great Zimbabwe receptions

Below Entrance gate to Emthunzini Wethemba campus

Below Musasa tree where people traditionally rest. Help us build a bigger musasa for the disadvantaged children of Zimbabwe.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING WAZIGA CHARITY PROGRAMS

Above Children at Alpha Cottages

 Below The Vegetable Garden project at Hope Tariro Hope

 Below The Chicken project at Emthunzini Wethemba

 Below St Warbergs Primary School