Feed 200 Zimbabwean Orphans

1,193 Donations from 817 Donors:

Project Personnel

Dennis Gaboury - Chairman, Board of Trustees

A U.S. citizen and sculptor, DENNIS GABOURY, 58, has been living and working with orphans in Bulawayo since 2006. From 2005 to the present he developed and ran the city-wide toy competition that evolved into the Zimkids Orphan Trust. During the same period he was the architect of another orphan project centered in Nketa, Bulawayo.

Sipho Nyoni - Director/Trustee

SIPHO NYONI, 41, became involved with ZimKids after working with Bambanani Orphan Group, which she founded and ran on her own with no compensation. The mother of two, Sipho lost her son in 2002 and her husband to AIDS in 2005. Herself HIV positive, Sipho has four years of education and was pulled out of school because her mother, a single parent, could no longer afford to pay her fees.

Tinashe Basa - Program manager

TINASHE BASA, 24, grew up hard, dumped at the age of two by his mother with relatives in a rural area, sick from malnutrition for a full year when he was five, and pulled out of school at the age of 15 to work in the tobacco fields. Nonetheless, he managed to put himself through the rest of secondary school by his own efforts and began volunteering with orphan projects in 2007.