Household Economic Strengthening Service

Youth Vocational Skills Training; MOC will partner with community-based artisans to offer theoretical and practical vocation training to youth to gain skills for sustainable livelihoods. Youth will assess their own strengths, weaknesses, presenting opportunities and threats (SWOT) in their communities to inform their choice of vocation. They will gain skills in different aspects…

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Reducing new infections in children and adolescents key in ending AIDS

Sustaining prevention, care, and support services for orphans and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe have been cited as key to ensuring their safety from the high risk of HIV infections. It emerged at the launch of the Mavambo Vana Activity, a five-year project which supports prevention, care, and support services for orphans and vulnerable…

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Empower a community Empower a girl!

Meet Linda Chigondo (17) from Chibvuti Goromonzi. She was born in a family of 3 (2 girls and a boy). Linda did her secondary education at Chabwino High school in Goromonzi District. Upon completing her Ordinary Level where she only passed one subject out of the five registered. Her household was privileged to…

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Takunda conquers her past in drug and substance abuse

Drug and substance abuse is proving to be a menace among the youth and young people in Zimbabwe as the plague gets exacerbated by poverty, unemployment and stress caused by family and social challenges. The spate is growing more in urban areas where the wave is spilling into schools putting the future of…

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Mavambo Trust’s Intervention Changes Landscape for Orphans

    Lovemore Jimu (17) is a double orphan whose parents died from AIDS related illnesses. Currently, he is doing Form 3 at Tafara 1 High in Harare. His mother died in 2008 and his father re-married another and died in 2014. His father died shortly after Lovemore was enrolled at Mavambo Learning…

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Determination and Endurance key attributes to success

When I settled in Goromonzi I had a series of challenges which resulted in my peace of mind being greatly affected,” said  Emma Nyatsambo describing her story.   Emma Nyatsambo is a 49-year-old woman from the Yaufeli Village Goromonzi. When she moved to Goromonzi with her family she was offered accommodation at a…

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