Tree planting program update The scaling up of our tree planting program has been launched! The Mangwende Trust team started by teaching and planting trees at our local clinic, Church and both the Dombodzvuku and Mabika secondary schools. Each student received seedlings for them to plant at their school. We then distributed trees and organizedContinue reading Tree Planting – April/May 2022 →

Dear Supporters, As the rainy season nearing to end, we would like to continue with our thatching on the 3 bedroom hut and raise funds for it. We have the thatching grass in place and seeking funds to cover the cost of the labour and the poles only. In the meantime, we are still plantingContinue reading Updates – February 2022 →

Dear Supporters, As we have mentioned, we are planning our first permaculture project with PORET in February and we are looking to raise funds to appropriately host the participants and be able to hold the meeting. Due to the recent weather we were not able to build the gazebo yet. We are looking to raiseContinue reading Updates – January ’22 →

As a new year is about to start we are happy to announce our supplementary feeding program is resumed and hope to reach up to 60 vulnerable children by the end of January. During the first quarter of the coming year we aim to complete the ongoing building works: thatching the three roomed house, constructionContinue reading MOCT 2021 – OUR WORK IN PICTURES →

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: