We are delighted to share the positive news,that the Mangwende Orphan Care Trust is one of the winners of this years Permaculture Magazine Award and to receive funding! Our project will be featured in the forthcoming issue of The Permaculture Magazine (PM114), out at the end of October.The 100,000+ subscribers will hear of our award and theContinue reading Winning the Permaculture Magazine Award 2022 →

The thatching of the 3 bedroomed house is now complete and we are now waiting for the tiler to come and start tiling and putting door handles, windowpanes and do all the finishing touches. Our next step will be furnishing the house as well as the system for the toilets. We need 8 showers, 8Continue reading Project news – September ‘22 →

It’s been a busy past few months at MOCT and we have some exciting news to share: YOU too can contribute to magnify our impact!  Firstly, we were delighted to welcome visitors from Denmark. Members of the UFF Humana People to People and Computergruppen Seniors Without Borders. We wish to thank our partner, the MaronderaContinue reading APRIL – JULY 2022: CELEBRATING ABUNDANCE →

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 →