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The rain started and we have more than 3000 trees to be planted but we need the resources to get the job done. We are giving away 1000 fruit trees to the nearest school and we wanted to help them to plant these trees. We also want to plant 2000 trees on our farm butContinue reading Growing Update – December →

Dear Supporters, We had been featured in last month’s Permaculture Magazine! As shortlisted finalists we had the opportunity to present our work in the Magazine! “The Mangwende Orphan Trust was set up to bring sustainable methods of food production to young people in Zimbabwe. Local chief, Evans Mangwende, came across permaculture techniques and used theseContinue reading Permaculture Magazine Feature →

Our over 10 000 seedlings are doing well. We have germinated them ourselves and include avocado, Kenyan croton and musasa seedlings are doing well under the care of three dedicated staff.The indigenous musasa trees will provide shade when fully grown. It is also resistant to bushfires. It can be used for furniture; tool making; firewoodContinue reading Growing update – November →

We are fighting to resume our supplementary feeding program this year. We will start by producing our own food so there are people from the surounding villages who are donating seeds (Open Pollinated). We still need more for us to be able to set up our own Seed Bank after harvesting this coming year. AsContinue reading November Update →

Dear Friends, As you know the Mangwende Orphan Care Trust was conceived as the need to uplift communities and a big part of it, is education and skills learning. The pandemic put a lot of pressure on everyone and lots of us have lost their beloved ones. However, what I see is that children areContinue reading Birthday fundraiser for vulnerable children →

First of all we want to thank all of our supporters for the ongoing support. Without you we wouldn’t be able to achieve this. Thank you! We finished the first building and are now ready for the next one. Brick moulding has resumed: Maize shelling also underway:

Dear Friends, We are proud to share our progress with the two bedroom hut we have made in the past couple of weeks.Thankful for our donors through the SEEDS campaign (see below for more info) we have secured sufficient funds to be able to put thatching on the building and moulding bricks to make aContinue reading Good progress 💫 →

Thanks for all who donated for our appeal to the orphanage!  We have started to render and have managed to purchase the thatching grass for the first building that is already built. In parallel we are starting to build the next hut, too. We have also purchased sugar cane, what we are going to useContinue reading Thatching grass and sugar cane →

A lady from United Arab Emirates who is Zimbabwean and a journalist and also a student at GAIA education studying “Design for Sustainability” came to visit the project to find out possible ways of assistance. Furthermore we collected mango seeds to plant at the farm.

Buy-A-Brick, Campaign Final In the midst of the Zimbabwean economic crisis (2019) a vision emerged to provide shelter for orphaned children, support the vulnerable and elderly through regenerative food growing practices. The idea of a replicable model of an Orphanage and Farmer Field School was born. Our mission is to provide:  A place for orphanedContinue reading A home in a regenerative farm for orphaned children in rural Zimbabwe →