by Mandla Tshuma Hope for a Child In Christ in partnership with the National AIDS Council and Childline will celebrate the International Day of the African Child on 18 June at Emakhandeni District of Bulawayo in Mpopoma suburb.  Children are expected to recite poems, act in dramas and perform some dances. ...

According to The Herald, ZAOGA-FIF Ministries celebrated its 51st anniversary recently. This religious community, led by Archbishop Ezekiel Guti, rehabilitated 29-km road stretching from Gombati to Ngaone in Chipinge West. According to the report prepared by the Ngaone Development Association (NDA), the road is the life-line for the entire community, and was destroyed in ...

Hope for a Child In Christ (HOCIC), a Bulawayo-based Christian non-governmental organisation, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services and World Food Programme, is distributing food hampers to more than 50 orphans in four wards of Zimbabwe’s second largest city. The allocations are done in Wards 8 and 29 in Magwegwe, ...

Jonathan Jansen, head of the University of the Free State, in a recent interview for The Daily Maverick, cites Zimbabwe as a model for SA’s schooling system. “It has placed a huge premium on education. It has a very strong educational culture. Remember, most schools there were not public schools; most of their ...

A couple weeks ago, The Herald published the reflections of their “Divine Appointments” columnist Tendai Manzvanzvike on the attitude of the Churches towards HIV/AIDS. Most fully, in an article entitled “Church shouldn’t stigmatise”,  Tendai Manzvanzvike gives an interesting quote from a representative from the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare Dr O ...

Chabadza is a word in the Shona language of Zimbabwe that means a partnership in which passers-by stop what they are doing to help someone else do their work. Through the partnership, it’s believed that both sides are enriched. As her hometown newspaper describes, Pennsylvania resident Elsa Zollars is the embodiment of ...

According to The Standard, visually impaired pupils will soon have improved supply of textbooks just like their sighted counterparts, thanks to the work of Sister Catherine Jackson, OP, a Harare-based Catholic nun. When many local publishers were jostling over a government printing contract to supply school textbooks under the US$70-million government-UNICEF ...