Skillup Zimbabwe

Skillup Zimbabwe

27/04/2026

Seeds of Change Episode 1 Encore. Meet Moffat, demoralized and struggling with substance abuse, but his grandmother is determined to win her grandson back and leave a legacy for him through reviving their macadamia nut tree plantation. This will include turning it into a farm hospitality venue by hosting tourists and an ecotherapy center focusing on young people struggling with substance abuse like her grandson. She also wants to use part of the profits to put up a modern water source and rid herself, and grandson, of the drudgery of collecting water daily from 2km away. The Skill Up Zimbabwe Apprenticeship, titled Water Wealth and Wisdom, where young people graduate with a vocational certificate in Food Cropping Systems for Community Development (Rural Water Systems Financing) - after being supported with funding to set up a viable business - provides the perfect opportunity. Also meet Tariro, Denzel, and their mentor Sisi Rhodah who inspired them through her pineapple plantation. It provides fruit as well as raw material for textiles, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals as well as a leisure grove which has attracted tourists from all over the world. Sisi Rhodah and her fellow pineapple growers are also using proceeds from their pineapple plantations to develop the community water supply system. Denzel is determined to do the same on his banana and bean plantation.





24/04/2026

Friday is for truth or dare acting. They took both and dared to act out the truth of what happens in my absence. Oh well, they get the work brilliantly done anyway.

Meet the last two (but definitely not least) of the Seeds of Change Season 1 Cast, Moffat, and his Grandmother. They rep...
21/04/2026

Meet the last two (but definitely not least) of the Seeds of Change Season 1 Cast, Moffat, and his Grandmother. They represent many families in our community struggling from poverty and conflict, struggling to access water, with young family members turning to drugs and substance abuse to cope with the hopelessness of it all, and this pushes them further away from lifting themselves out of poverty. But Moffat's Gogo is determined. She will go down trying. Stay with us, and with the passage of time will you will get to hear real life testimonies from the young lives already being transformed by this program.





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Introducing more of the Seeds of Change Season 1 Cast. Meet Tariro (wearing hat) in Sisi Rhodah's Pineapple Grove🍍. This...
20/04/2026

Introducing more of the Seeds of Change Season 1 Cast. Meet Tariro (wearing hat) in Sisi Rhodah's Pineapple Grove🍍. This is how the inspiration was sparked and traveled all they way from Chimanimani to Bvumba Mountains and into a Banana and Bean Plantation belonging to Denzel Tari's friend. Not only had Tari never seen a 🍍 on a plant. She never knew that pineapples could produce more than fruit (medicine, textiles, leisure, cosmetics, unite a community). She had also never heard of red bananas. Have you? If you missed Episode 1 checkout our recent profile posts.





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17/04/2026

Introducing our reality show cast. Meet Denzel and Rhodah the Seeds of Change Season 1 stars. If you missed episode 1 step back to our last feature to get exciting insight of how we have created a curriculum where the graduation certificate is a viable business that solves societal challenges.





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15/04/2026

Based on real apprentice life experiences, as they travel the journey to set up viable and sustainable businesses powered by water, which also sustains day to day community life, and graduate with an interdisciplinary certificate in Food Cropping Systems for Community Development (Focus Area Rural Water Systems Financing). While youth economic empowerment is our main goal, there are multiple fruits of being engaged, especially in a nature based business. One of them is reducing the risk of engagement in drug and substance abuse, a reality we are navigating daily as we travel the Skill Up Zimbabwe Journey. Seeds of Change Season 1 Episode 1. Enjoy.





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Episode 1 of season 1 is out. Capturing real life changes happening in the Community inspired by real life apprentices...
13/04/2026

Episode 1 of season 1 is out. Capturing real life changes happening in the Community inspired by real life apprentices as they travel the Water Wealth and Wisdom Journey to transform their food system. We said it. Skill Up Zimbabwe is a first of its kind curriculum. Watch. Listen. Learn. You too can transform your community.




03/04/2026

Drum roll please for 's apprentice challenge, where your graduation certificate in Rural Water System Financing and Sustainability, is a viable and innovative water powered business using a water source that serves the wider community. Listen as Denzel speaks about how after being mentored by Pineapple Rhodah in module one, him and his brother Mickel took up the challenge to surpass the very high bar she has set. First step they expanded their banana plantation & diversified by investing in runner bean production (yum yum). To develop water infrastructure they have in mind rock catchment rainwater harvesting. How is their interdisciplinary certificate in Food Cropping Systems for Community Development (Rural Water Systems Financing) shaping up?




In a recent post on 10 things that make SkillUpZim a globally premium model of education and a first of its kind we spea...
02/04/2026

In a recent post on 10 things that make SkillUpZim a globally premium model of education and a first of its kind we speak about our apprentices developing unchartered skills these include partnering global networks for business finance as well as social media and business growth. Here you have it folks, Our Vimbai and her brother who are members of Junior Chambers International brought the Africa & Middle East Presidency Home and Ernest a former Welthungerhilfe Colleague (Once a Welthungerhilfian always a Welthungerhilfian) reached out for partnership from JCI Massachusetts. How awesome is that.




31/03/2026

Let's do the wealth math. is a globally premium model of education where your graduation certificate is not paper but a viable enterprise powered by water. The same water will also sustain human life. Our chief mentor and tutor Pineapple Rhodah has set the bar high (with a 15000 plant plantation each can earn 3 usd a year from the fruit alone and last 10 years. We haven't even added the value of the fibre for high end vegan leather markets, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic use, and the leisure dividend from the farm hospitality industry). She has already inspired young apprentices who are already investing in their plantations and various enterprises.




Yes are happy go lucky team but let's wear a serious lens and talk about the real world problems the apprenticeship is...
29/03/2026

Yes are happy go lucky team but let's wear a serious lens and talk about the real world problems the apprenticeship is tackling, unemployment and the need for sustainable rural water supply systems to sustain human life. By building skills that increase the economic value of water through creative & exciting agricultural ventures that stimulate commitment, we create employment and wealth for youth, and we build the financial muscle required to sustain the water infrastructure for human life. Under the same apprenticeship,we build technical skills that allow the young people to take care of the water infrastructure, and our curriculum also shifts community attitudes building a desire to take care of the water resources. Water Wealth and Wisdom is the apprenticeship title embodying the community building blocks towards sustainable rural water supply shown in the colorful diagram, see link for more detail on WASH building blocks, https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/what-we-do/focus-areas/water-sanitation-and-hygiene


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