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Zimkids Orphan Trust
126A Burnside Road
Burnside,
Bulawayo
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
263-9-241839
http://www.zimkids.com
Zimkids Orphan Trust is a neighborhood-based safe haven for orphaned children in impossible circumstances. We are committed to ensuring that the children and their caregivers have access to food and medical care, as well as creative, recreational and educational opportunities and training in the tools essential for self-reliance so they can grow into productive, healthy adults who are literate, energized, assertive and ready to take initiative for themselves, their families and their community.
We now feed 160 orphans and offer them workshops in drama and comedy writing, a chess club and choir, soccer, AIDS awareness training, a lending library and tutoring. We are working toward the creation of an urban agriculture program that will teach the children gardening skills and provide them with food. In cooperation with the local primary school, we are about to set up a computer lab. And we’re angling for general health education training under the supervision of a nurse practitioner.
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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, 20, 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.
Dennis Gaboury , Chair, Board of Trustees
Founded in 2006
Employees: 0
Volunteers: 19
Budget (2009): 32,000
Budget (2008): 23,950
Maximum Budget: 32,000
Other funding sources: Private donations and sale of dolls and wire toys made by orphans
Religious Affiliation: none
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