Jedidiah Trust

Jedidiah Trust We are a nonprofit organisation on a mission to build stronger, more compassionate communities - one life, one family, one neighbourhood at a time.

💗 Celebrating the Heart of motherhood 💗This Mother's Day, we are heading to Chikurubi Female Prison on Friday, 9th May 2...
30/04/2026

💗 Celebrating the Heart of motherhood 💗
This Mother's Day, we are heading to Chikurubi Female Prison on Friday, 9th May 2026 to celebrate the incredible mothers behind those walls! Because a mother's love knows no barriers not distance, not circumstance, not walls. Join us in spirit as we bring joy, love and celebration to these amazing women and their little ones. Every mother deserves to feel seen, valued, and celebrated. 💕
"Her children rise up and call her blessed." — Proverbs 31:28
🙏 Thank you to everyone who makes moments like these possible through your prayers and support.
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🌹 Happy Mother's Day 🌹This Mother's Day, we turn our hearts toward the incredible women at Chikurubi Female Prison — mot...
28/04/2026

🌹 Happy Mother's Day 🌹
This Mother's Day, we turn our hearts toward the incredible women at Chikurubi Female Prison — mothers whose love stretches beyond every wall, every distance, every hardship.
We are honoured to invite you to join us as we celebrate, uplift and honour every mother with the dignity and love she deserves.
📅 Saturday, 9 May 2026
📍 Chikurubi Female Prison, Harare, Zimbabwe
A day filled with music, prayer, heartfelt tributes, special gifts and joyful fellowship because every mother deserves to feel seen, loved and celebrated. A mother's love knows no walls. It is endless and unconditional.

Zimbabwe's 2023 Sentencing Guidelines say courts should consider non-custodial sentences for mothers of dependent childr...
27/04/2026

Zimbabwe's 2023 Sentencing Guidelines say courts should consider non-custodial sentences for mothers of dependent children. That is a good law. Here is the problem: it is not being applied consistently. Mothers are still being imprisoned for non-violent, poverty-driven offences without social workers in the courtroom, without child welfare assessments and without anyone asking where will this child sleep tonight? The law exists. The implementation does not.
At Jedidiah Trust, we are not just running programmes but we are pushing for the system to change. Because no programme can fully undo what an unnecessary custodial sentence does to a child's development, education and mental health. Change the system. Protect the children. That is our mandate.
If you believe in evidence-based sentencing reform in Zimbabwe, share this post and add your voice. 📢
ChildFund Segal Family Foundation Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Dev. UK in Zimbabwe

Here is something real you can do today. 👇For USD $10, Jedidiah Trust can provide one child of an incarcerated parent wi...
24/04/2026

Here is something real you can do today. 👇
For USD $10, Jedidiah Trust can provide one child of an incarcerated parent with a month of psychosocial support sessions.
For USD $25, we can cover one child's school materials for a term.
For USD $50, we can run one family reintegration workshop that helps a mother reconnect with her children after release.
These are not big numbers. But in Norton, in Harare, in the communities we serve they are life-changing. We are not a large organisation. We are not heavily funded. We are a small team doing important work with whatever resources people like you make available. If you can give — give today. If you cannot give — share this post. It costs nothing and it reaches someone who can.
🔗 Donate: jedidiahtrustzim.org

We want to tell you something about the mothers in Zimbabwe's prisons. Most of them are not violent offenders. According...
23/04/2026

We want to tell you something about the mothers in Zimbabwe's prisons. Most of them are not violent offenders. According to Zimbabwe's own prison statistics, the majority of women admitted to prison are unemployed and most are imprisoned for theft and drug-related offences born of poverty not malice. They are young. Many are between 20 and 30 years old. They are mothers. And when they go to prison, their children pay a price that was never on any sentencing document.
At Jedidiah Trust, we do not excuse crime. But we refuse to pretend that punishing a mother in isolation is justice when the punishment falls heaviest on the child who committed no offence at all. Advocating for smarter sentencing. Advocating for these children. Advocating for families.
That is our work. Every single day.

Segal Family Foundation Norton Voices
22/04/2026

Segal Family Foundation Norton Voices

📌 FACT: There are approximately 15,000 children in Zimbabwe who currently have a parent behind bars. An estimated 60,000...
21/04/2026

📌 FACT: There are approximately 15,000 children in Zimbabwe who currently have a parent behind bars. An estimated 60,000 more have experienced parental incarceration at some point in their lives. That is not a small number. That is a national crisis hiding in plain sight. These children are more likely to drop out of school. More likely to experience depression and PTSD. More likely if nothing changes end up in the same system that took their parent. The cycle does not break itself.
Jedidiah Trust breaks it through psychosocial support, family reintegration and advocacy for these children's rights. But we cannot do it alone. Share this post if you think these children deserve better.

There is a child in Zimbabwe today who has done nothing wrong. She has not stolen. She has not hurt anyone. She has not ...
20/04/2026

There is a child in Zimbabwe today who has done nothing wrong. She has not stolen. She has not hurt anyone. She has not broken a single law. But she is sleeping in a prison cell because her mother is there and there is nowhere else for her to go. At Jedidiah Trust Zimbabwe, we exist for that child. And for the thousands more outside the prison walls whose mothers are inside navigating school, hunger, stigma and grief without the one person they need most. We are Zimbabwe's only organisation dedicated entirely to children affected by parental incarceration. 6 years in. Still going. Still needed.
If you believe every child deserves a childhood follow our page, share this post and walk with us.
🔗 jedidiahtrustzim.org

We shared groceries with caregivers (grandmothers, aunts and guardians) who are holding families together while mothers ...
17/04/2026

We shared groceries with caregivers (grandmothers, aunts and guardians) who are holding families together while mothers are behind bars. These are the quiet heroes who carry the weight of love, responsibility and resilience every single day. Behind every food parcel is more than a meal. It is dignity restored, hope sustained and a reminder to a child that they are not forgotten. As we close this Friday, we remember that it truly takes a village to raise a child especially when life has been unkind.

Some reunions don’t need many words as they speak through smiles, tight embraces and through the way a child refuses to ...
15/04/2026

Some reunions don’t need many words as they speak through smiles, tight embraces and through the way a child refuses to let go. Today, we witnessed moments that remind us why we do what we do — children reconnecting with love, mothers holding onto hope and families finding pieces of themselves again. For children affected by incarceration, these moments are not ordinary, they are everything. At Jedidiah Trust, we believe every child deserves connection, dignity and love no matter the circumstances. Together, we can restore what separation tries to break. 🤝🏽

She sits there in a place many only know by name yet behind the uniform is not a number, a case file or a label. She is ...
13/04/2026

She sits there in a place many only know by name yet behind the uniform is not a number, a case file or a label. She is a mother. Her eyes carry a story words may never fully hold. A story of love that did not end at the prison gate. A story of children she still thinks about every single night. A story of birthdays missed, school days imagined and hugs remembered like something sacred. In moments like this, it is easy for the world to see “offender.” But if we look closer, really closer, we see something else too. We see a woman still holding on to motherhood in its purest form: love that does not disappear even when life becomes painfully complicated. Love that waits. Love that worries. Love that prays quietly in the hardest places.

At Jedidiah Trust we are constantly reminded that incarceration does not only affect the person inside as it echoes in the lives of children outside, in grandmothers raising children they never expected to raise and in families trying to stay whole in broken circumstances. Behind every woman like her, there is a child who still says “my mother” with hope in their voice.

This is why dignity matters.
This is why humanity matters.
This is why support matters.

Because if we only see the crime, we miss the human being.
And if we miss the human being, we lose the chance to heal families. May we become a society that is not only just but also compassionate enough to see mothers even in the most unlikely places.

💔 Because a mother is still a mother even behind bars.

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