Pictured: Left: Repssi Zimbabwe Country Director Sibusiswe Marunda received the keys from Family AIDS Caring Trust – FACT Zimbabwe Executive Director Gertrude Shumba during the handover ceremony. Right- The fleet of Toyota Land Cruisers that were handed over to partners. 6/6/2022- FACT Zimbabwe presented and handed over nine motor vehicles to Sub-Sub Recipients (SSRs) Jointed Hands …
Community Apprentice facilitator demonstrating how to craft beaded bracelets. 50 women from Kurwaisimba and Rusitu in Chimanimani district participated in bead making training workshop. The training equipped participants with skills and knowledge on designing different types of jewellery using beads, discussing the basic concepts of market identification and linkages, and exploring life skill projects that …
FACT Zimbabwe in partnership with Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation with support from the Centre for Disease Control has kickstarted the NO Means NO Worldwide Boys and Young Men’s inaugural training in Mashonaland West province of Zimbabwe. The training seeks to build facilitation skills for Adolescent Boys and Young Men (ABYM) aged between 10 and 20 …
Golden Girls is a five-member group from Ward 35 of Makoni district. The group comprises five girls (Elizabeth 18 years, Florence 17 years, Shamiso 17 years, Rutendo 17 years, Vimbai 18 years) who are all survivors of abuse with three of them being teen mothers. Through the FACT Zimbabwe implemented Children Tariro program supported by the …
Nelson and his wife Nomatter The first phase of the TORCHES (Towards Resilient Communities with Health, Equity, and Safety for all) project is focusing on strengthening male involvement in addressing the marginalization of women facilitating more gender-equitable and equal communities. Action Aid together with its partners Leonard Cheshire Disability, Family AIDS Caring Trust- Zimbabwe (FACT) …
Loveness Chenjerai Meet 26-year-old Loveness from Chipinge, a USAID/PEPFAR supported district who through her determination and resilience, has become a role model and an inspiration to other girls and young women in her community as a DREAMS mentor. Loveness completed her Advanced Level Studies in 2014, which she passed with flying colors and had a …
Pictured: Left- Some of the cosmetics being sold by Tsungai through the mobile boutique. Right- Tsungai wearing a smile she thought would never be seen as her hope for a brighter future has been rekindled. An old adage says, “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop” a typical scene that characterizes most Zimbabwean …
Family AIDS Caring Trust – FACT Zimbabwe in partnership with NO Means NO Worldwide with support from The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through USAID Zimbabwe has kickstarted a month long virtual IMPower Instructors training. The training of 20 Adolescent Girls and Young Women drawn from Manicaland province seeks to increase girls’ …
The realisation of Healthy Communities for A Healthy Nation remains central to the project implementation by FACT Zimbabwe. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching out to communities with the much-needed health related services has been a major setback in project implementation. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, FACT Zimbabwe embraced alternative engagement …
FACT Zimbabwe, a Christian based national organization working in and through partnerships to improve health and reduce poverty, has noted with concern the alarming spike in child marriages, teenage pregnancies and sexual abuse cases of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) during this COVID-19 pandemic. Child Marriage and teenage pregnancy infringes and negatively impacts on …
