Zimkids Enterprises
Since 2012, Zimkids has been training our young people in a wide array of construction skills, from welding to painting, electrical installation, solar installation and tiling. We’ve sent them to advanced courses, given them serious on-the-job training in building our own Centre, and ensured that they are prompt, serious and responsible. Now, their services are […]
Connect Your Kids to ZimKids
Zimkids Outreach to U.S. School Part of our mission is to open the minds of our orphans to the wider world, and we’re anxious to do the same for their American counterparts. So each Fall, Tinashe Basa, our director, and Dennis Gaboury, our founder, visit schools across the United States, from Fairbanks, Alaska to Dallas, […]
Zimkids Orphan Trust History
Neither Barbie nor the Transformers has much market share in a place like Zimbabwe, where a teacher would have to work for a month to afford the most minimal of Mattel’s offerings, where unemployment tops 90 percent, and half the population is on the verge of hunger. Yet even in such dire circumstances, kids will […]
Outreach in Bulawayo
In 2014, with our programs firmly in place, Zimkids looked further afield, and our staff set their sights on helping an impoverished community called Methodist about 5 miles from our Center, a village of families displaced from their homes by government more than twenty years ago. Today, almost 1000 people live in makeshift shanties cobbled together from […]