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 →

Dear Supporters, As always there is a lot going on at the Mangwende Orphan Care Trust. We have just started the harvest on the smaller (4.8ha) plot and we feel blessed that after two years of drought we have a good harvest this year.We still have a long way to go before we finish asContinue reading Harvesting and a Borehole →

– by Viktoria Szilvas Dear Supporters, In the past month we have progressed well on our fist orphanage hut, with the walls are now standing.We are now going to look for the roofing materials, floor tiles, window panes and 2 frames, 4 doors and locks. To accelerate our progress we are launching our ‘Buy aContinue reading orphanage huts – ‘Buy a Brick’ campaign →