We provide nutritional, educational, vocational, medical and psychosocial support to over 300 orphans from ages 2 through 22. For more than a decade, Zimkids has been helping young people cope with life in a country ravaged by AIDS, corruption, and violence, where the life expectancy is 34 years of age. Zimkids not only feeds orphans but pays for their medical needs and provides educational and re
creational programs, as well as vocational training to help 300 young people in the Pumula North neighborhood of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe build better tomorrows. Built by four of the young people who grew up with us, under the supervision of director Tinashe Basa and founder Dennis Gaboury, it includes an educational resource Center, library, kitchen and clinic; a Computer training center; a market garden complete with drip irrigation technology, a sports field and chicken and egg production area. It is powered entirely by solar energy. Believing in empowering youth, we have a Council of Elders composed of our beneficiaries over the age of 15. Trained and supervised by our staff - all FORMER elders - they plan, schedule and direct many of our activities for younger children.
