ABCF Community Empowerment Projects

Caring for Moms in Zambia 

The Maunga Clinic provides care packs and pre-natal classes for moms to be at the clinic. These care packs provide much-needed baby supplies while the per-natal classes support and educate women through their pregnancies while encouraging regular check-ups. The recent purchase of additional equipment at the clinic including an oxygen cylinder, regulator, mask, fetoscope, measuring tape, and scale is helping to ensure that the clinic is well-equipped to support mothers during and after giving birth at the clinic.

CECT sports tournament in Botswana 

Our annual CECT event hosted in the Chobe region in Botswana brings together primary school learners from five villages in the area to participate in a fun-filled day of sports and activity. This year’s tournament will be hosted at Satau Primary School and we expanded the tournament to include both soccer and netball. 

The objective of this annual event is to create a platform to inspire the youth in Botswana through sports and fitness. Through our community empowerment and education projects in Botswana, we recognize the importance of actively nurturing the youth's development, instilling good values, and creating safe spaces for positive recreation activities that will inspire them to steer clear of negative influences such as crime, violence, and substance abuse. 

Learners will participate in a fun-filled day of sports and each receives a stationery pack for the upcoming school term.

Dete Run in Zimbabwe 

The Dete Run is an annual 10KM fun run hosted just outside the Hwange National Park. This annual race mobilizes and empowers the community through sports, fitness, and health competitions. This month we are hosting over 700 runners participating in the adults and children's category. As part of this event, much-needed food supplies will be donated to the Dete Old Age Home.

Thank you for partnering with us as we strive to develop thriving communities in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 

Our community empowerment projects aim to support the community with practical skills and tools that can assist them to generate their own economic activity.

The young farmers club at Maunga primary school is a vegetable garden running at the school by the teachers and learners. The garden is growing crops from seedlings providing by African Bush Camps Foundation and here the learners are learning how to grow, farm and harvest the crops. Additionally this new vegetable garden at the school is providing additional meals to the nutrition program running at the school and agricultural education, which students can practice and use at home to grow a vegetable garden that will support and feed their families.

The Mambanje  garden is currently full of life with a mix of tomato, cabbage, peppers, beans and choumoellier. In 2023, we will be providing additional garden tools, seeds, and resources to assist and building a tool shed for the storage of the equipmenOur ongoing plans for the Mambanje. 

Thank you for the ongoing support for our community empowerment projects. 

The nurse accommodation at the Maunga clinic in Zambia is complete. The building was complete in December 2022 and will be handed over to the community in an official handover ceremony in February 2023. This 3-bedroom house is much-needed accommodation in this community as it will allow us to increase the resources that are deployed at the clinic.

We have compeleted the installation of drip irriagation at the Mambanje Garden in Zimbabwe to assist the flow of water to all the beds in the garden, The garden is currently supporting 36 families in the community and we aim to increase the crops produced and harvested at the garden by improving the water flow and supply to the bed.

We also conducted soil assessments and training with the community to assist them to plant the right crops for the garden which will yield enough crops to feed their families and some that they can sell to earn an income. 

Thank you for the support and donations towards our community empowement projects. 

Maunga Clinic Zambia 

We are so excited to kick off the clinic building project at Maunga Clinic where we will be building accommodation for the nurse. This 3-bedroom house is much-needed accommodation in this community as it will allow us to increase the resources that are deployed at the clinic. The local government supplies nurses and doctors to medical centres in the country and in order for us to increase the number of medical personnel at our clinic, we would need to have adequate accommodation for them in the area.

This accommodation will go a long way towards increasing the number of nurses and doctors as well as increasing the number of patients that can be helped at the clinic. We are so excited about the completion of this building which will be ready in early 2023. 

Thank you to all our donors for partnering with us. 

Our community empowerment projects have been seeing a significant recovery with the easing of Covid restrictions in the areas and communities we support.

Vuche Vuche (Botswana)

The Vuche Vuche basket weaving initiative is doing well with business improving and trading getting back to normal with tourism activities getting up and running again in Kasane. We recently sent the ladies to a nearby village where they received training from a local basket weaving initiative. The aim was to facilitate cross-pollination as well as to assist the Vuche Vuche ladies to develop their skills and craft. The training was a huge success with the ladies learning how to create new patterns and designs for the baskets as well as additional business skills like managing finances and client services and engagements. We are excited about the growth of this project and are currently working hard to help them market and promote their work to local and internal tourists visiting the area. 

Mambanje Community Garden (Zimbabwe) 

The garden is current supporting 36 families which are occupying 30 of the 50 beds available. 20% of the crops growing in the garden are being sold by the community to earn additional income. The garden has the scope and capacity to support more families as well as to generate more economic activity for the community. 

Our next focus for the garden is to conduct soil assessments at the garden which will assist us in identifying the right crops that best grow in the area. We also want to provide harvesting and gardening training to the community to assist them to make the best use of the garden. This training will assist the community to plant crops that will best grow in the garden and use the correct harvesting technics for their crops. The training will provide the community with new skills and tools to utilize the garden to its fullest capacity which will contribute to the sustainability and longevity of the garden, especially once we progress the garden to focus more on commercial farming.

 We are grateful for your ongoing support and generous donations towards our community empowerment projects.