We’re not only keeping 160 Zimbabwean orphans alive, with sports, arts, medical programs and individual attention, we’re helping them to thrive even as their country crumples.
Zimkids works with 160 orphans in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, whose lives have unraveled. Their immediate families have been torn asunder by AIDS. The extended families that look after them are overburdened by the growing number of children falling into the care of a decreasing number of adults. Their country has collapsed, so schools are either closed or barely functioning. And local clinics and public hospitals they turn to for help have either ceased to operate or become too expensive.
We feed 160 orphans and offer workshops in drama and comedy writing, a chess club and choir, soccer, AIDS awareness training, a library, tutoring, and a clinic. We’re creating a program to teach gardening and increase our food supply.
Our goal is not only to keep the kids alive but to help them grow into productive adults, energized, assertive and ready to take initiative for themselves, their families and their community.
“I wish every orphan in Zimbabwe had access to a program like Zimkids.”
- Shelley Lasker, Community activist
Total Funding Received to Date: $174,762
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $25,237
Total Funding Goal: $200,000
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