Rosie Rushton and friends are putting on a Lent Lunch in aid of Africaid this Saturday - 20th February - in Weston Favell, UK. Many thanks, Rosie, and may the weather be kind! (currently snowing... Ed)
There is a fantastic 1st prize in the raffle of a free week's holiday in a self catering cottage this summer so someone is going to be happy!
The shipment of over 300 books for the library at Zvandiri House must be half way to Harare now. It is due there in 4 weeks time. Again - thank you Wellingborough School, and thank you Allan Leroy for having the idea of setting up the library over four years ago. It is much used - a great success.
As the article on the front page explains, specially trained Zvandiri kids are so good at counselling their peers with HIV that they have been asked to set up a service in one of Harare's biggest hospitals! That is good all round: good for the children at the hospital; good for recruitment to the Zvandiri programme; good for the counsellors' self-esteem (and remember that is part of our whole objective); and good for Africaid's expanding reputation.
There is a lot happening here. Every day our combi bus (thanks, UNICEF!) goes out to collect children from one or other of our 20 communities. Once they are safely delivered to Zvandiri House for a range of activities the combi sets off for one of the other communities with our Outreach team on board! So we work with at least two communities every day, apart from everything else we get up to.
And now we are cranking up our two blogs: this one for the administration joins the children's own one. Between them we hope the blogs will be a convenient way to keep you informed about Africaid and its Zvandiri Programme. Why not sign up to be a follower of them both?
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