Zimbabwe Achievers Award: Supporting five charities in 2012.

Posted by Vanessa Hobson Charity Co-ordinator 

“munhu munhu nekuda kwevanhu” “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can all do small things with great love” (Mother Teresa) and that is exactly what the five charities the Zimbabwean Achievers Awards (ZAA) are supporting this year, are each doing, in their individual ways.

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The African Baobab Foundation

The African Baobab Foundation was founded in 2008, and aims to enable and empower marginalised people worldwide through provision of holistic services including healthcare, education, employment, and also helping people understand what Conservation and Tourism is all about and how it impacts our overall well being. Our key specialisation is in provision of full range of support services to disabled people to all ages. Our support services are need based, efficient and timely. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives. http://www.africanbaobabfoundation.org/

Girl-Child Network Worldwide

It is oft quoted that “if you educate a girl, you educate a nation” and Betty Makoni is aiming to empower and educate the world – one girl at a time. “From our lived experiences, we have so many practical ways to support the empowerment of girls in the home, school, and community so that what happened to us will never happen to women and girls again. We want a new breed of girl who will walk in the fullness of her potential” 

http://www.girlchildnetworkworldwide.org/

Vimba
Vimba which translates to mean ‘hope’ in the native Zimbabwean language Shona was established in 2007, registered in the UK in 2008 and has grown considerably from donating bags of food and clothes to running three established feeding and education centres in Zimbabwe and have recently partnered with an AIDS orphanage.
http://www.vimba.co.uk/

Ponayi

“My name is Leoba; I am the founder of Ponayi. I am a mother of four of Southern African origin living here in the UK.  My journey to this point began a few years ago when I was diagnosed with breast cancer which had a devastating effect on my family.  I found it very hard to express myself to all those involved in my health care, including my own GP due to various cultural beliefs and hurdles.  My story has a happy ending, I was one of the lucky ones and I beat my illness. My journey to recovery was what made me think of setting up a charity which would support people like myself and help them through difficult times.”
www.ponayi.org.uk

Save the Rhino
More than 150 rhinos have been killed in South Africa this year, nearly half the amount that were killed in the whole of 2010. Need we say more…
http://www.savetherhino.org/

It is sometimes easy to feel overwhelmed by how much work there is still left to be done to erase poverty, and abuse and to help all those that need our help. But the important thing to remember is that if we all play a very small part, a few hours volunteering a month, £1 and £2 donations by text, by running a marathon for a charity, or holding a cake sale and donating the profits we can, and we will achieve great things…together.

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Teresa