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Care for Life Our mission is to alleviate suffering, promote self-reliance, and instill hope. Our Mission: "To alleviate suffering, promote self-reliance, and instill hope."

For more info please call: 480-529-5290

Ever wondered what a Matchessa is? Here's the short version.It's the building a community gathers in. Block walls, a met...
10/08/2026

Ever wondered what a Matchessa is? Here's the short version.

It's the building a community gathers in. Block walls, a metal roof, and room for everyone. Leaders plan there. Adults learn to read and write there. Children's programs meet there. When a community hits a milestone, they often celebrate there.

For a new community, it's the foundation everything else is built on.

In June, visitors helped raise the Matchessa in Mutua 3. This month, Mutua 2 finished its own. For many parents there, it means a classroom close to home, and a chance to learn what they never got to in school.

Both of our newest communities now have a place to learn, plan, and celebrate.

learn more at www.careforlife.org

Every pole in this frame came from far away.To cut materials for their new home, João Alberto Américo rides his bicycle ...
10/06/2026

Every pole in this frame came from far away.

To cut materials for their new home, João Alberto Américo rides his bicycle for two days just to reach the site. It's the only transportation he has.

His wife, Helena Francisco, is standing in front of what they've built so far in Mutua 3. It's slow, hard work. They're happy to do it, because the house going up is theirs.

Mutua 3 joined the program in May. Families here are already building. Learn more about how you can help at www.careforlife.org

Nhamayabwe 1 celebrated the arrival of two new wells this summer.This is what came after. No ribbon, no speeches. Yellow...
10/01/2026

Nhamayabwe 1 celebrated the arrival of two new wells this summer.

This is what came after. No ribbon, no speeches. Yellow jerrycans in a line, a woman at the pump, kids waiting their turn.

Before this, families here walked long distances for water. That walk usually falls on women and children, and water from unsafe sources brings illness home with it.

This is what Care for Life does. We work alongside families on the basics that hold a household together: health, safe homes, clean water, and a way to earn. A pump close to home touches almost all of them at once.

Every hour not spent walking for water is an hour for school, work, and rest.

Join us at www.careforlife.org

Sónia João has seven kids. She knows exactly what it feels like when there isn't enough.At an awareness session about st...
09/29/2026

Sónia João has seven kids. She knows exactly what it feels like when there isn't enough.

At an awareness session about starting a business, one idea stuck with her: you don't start with a lot. You start with what you have.

So she and her husband, Chapepa, started selling firewood.

The bundles are stacked outside their home in Nhamayabwe 1 now, sorted and ready to sell. Every one of them is food, something the kids need, and a little progress.

She's just getting started. She's already found out she can change her family's story.

Learn more at www.careforlife.org

A bench packed edge to edge. Kids who came for the lesson and stayed for each other. That's a normal week at the childre...
09/15/2026

A bench packed edge to edge. Kids who came for the lesson and stayed for each other. That's a normal week at the children's club in Macharote Central.

Watch one of these clubs for a while and you'll see it: friendships forming, kids learning to belong to a group and not just sit in a room together.

That's community starting young, long before anyone puts a word to it. Join us at www.careforlife.org


photo credit: Eniluap Photography

A green card. A few handwritten lines. That's what protection against tetanus looks like this month in Nhamayabwe 1.Teta...
09/10/2026

A green card. A few handwritten lines. That's what protection against tetanus looks like this month in Nhamayabwe 1.

Tetanus is preventable. Left untreated, it's often fatal. Every child who gets this vaccine also gets something that outlasts the appointment: a card their family will carry for years, proof of care that follows them to the next clinic visit, and the one after that.

One child, one card, one morning. Multiply that across every family in the program, and that's the work. Learn more at www.careforlife.org

photo credit: Eniluap Photography

Amelia got sick as an adult and lost the ability to move the way she used to. For a while, she'd given up hope.Now she's...
09/09/2026

Amelia got sick as an adult and lost the ability to move the way she used to. For a while, she'd given up hope.

Now she's back at the literacy center in Mandruze, in the 4th grade group, with new school supplies in hand.

Here's what she said: "Thank you for helping me find family, friends, colleagues, and companions even in my current condition."

Education did more than teach her to read. It gave her a place to belong.

Laura Chico Gimo is turning a small plot of land in Nhamayabwe 1 into a steady source of food, planted, tended, and harv...
08/20/2026

Laura Chico Gimo is turning a small plot of land in Nhamayabwe 1 into a steady source of food, planted, tended, and harvested season after season.

Growing the food is only half the work. What happens after harvest, drying and preserving what families grow, is what turns a good season into food security that lasts through the lean months too.

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Six months ago, Mrs. Ana couldn't write her name.Today she can read, write, and complete a full written text on her own....
08/13/2026

Six months ago, Mrs. Ana couldn't write her name.

Today she can read, write, and complete a full written text on her own. She's one of the participants in Care for Life's adult literacy program, meeting alongside neighbors who are learning right beside her, some for the first time in their lives.

Ana isn't just showing up for herself anymore. She's inviting everyone she knows to come do the same.

"My sisters and brothers, there's no age limit for learning. Come and let's learn."

learn more at www.careforlife.org
photo credit: Eniluap Photography

A health campaign moved through Mafambisse 1, Macharote Central, and Nhamayabwe 1 this June, and it did three jobs at on...
08/11/2026

A health campaign moved through Mafambisse 1, Macharote Central, and Nhamayabwe 1 this June, and it did three jobs at once.

452 people vaccinated. Children and women of childbearing age.

436 children registered at birth. A birth certificate is what makes a child legible to the systems that serve them. Without one, school and healthcare can stay out of reach for an entire childhood.

468 people counseled and tested, learning their status. All positive results were connected to care right away.

None of that happens by running three separate programs on three separate weeks. It happens by meeting families once, in the places they were already gathered, with everything ready. Community leaders stayed close to families throughout and made the turnout possible.

"The families in the community are grateful for these types of activities and request that they be repeated whenever possible." Learn more at www.careforlife.org

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3850 E. Baseline Road , Ste 114
Mesa, AZ
85206

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