Author: Sarah Adams

PORRIDGE DELIVERY FOR ZIMBABWE STUDENTS

  To Jabulani, Lesedi, St Mary’s, and Dinde we go, With two tonnes of Mighty Meal porridge in tow.   Feeding almost 2000 children for the next few weeks, Some of the pressure on parents is able to be released. Designed to help students last through the day, A bowl of Mighty Meal each morning… Read more »

Lesedi Primary School classroom expansion

The new classroom block at Lesedi Primary School is now complete thanks to Grand Circle Foundation. The final materials for the completion of the building were delivered towards the end of 2020. Due to school holidays in December and then a further lockdown in January this year, work on the building was halted several times…. Read more »

Update from Zimbabwe – they’re not kidding around

There’s a new kid on the block!  Or rather, a new buck of a superior specimen who has just arrived and forms the centre of a new goat project in Jabulani Village. After several challenges due to Covid-19 and the lockdown, the community group was finally able to be established, and a two-year-old buck, since… Read more »

Looking back on water access in Zimbabwe

In recognition of World Water Day for 2021, we reflect on the value of water, the benefits that boreholes bring, and all that Grand Circle Foundation has contributed to water needs in rural Zimbabwe. Water is life. We need it for numerous daily tasks, and for many, we can turn a faucet on and off… Read more »

Zimbabwe – DFG Hygiene kits distributed at Jabulani village

Sixty-eight Days for Girls hygiene kits were distributed to the Jabulani community, just outside of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. This was the second distribution from the recent donation from the Stanwood Camano Island Chapter Group. For this distribution, we chose to give the kits out to women of the Jabulani community. Many of these women are… Read more »

Trash to treasure in Zimbabwe – St. Mary’s

We are happy to announce that the St Mary’s Papermaking project has officially begun. The group of eight women began their training at the beginning of November and have taken to it with much motivation and excitement. Due to Covid-19, this project was delayed as travel was not allowed within the country. Now that some… Read more »

DFG Hygiene kits in Zimbabwe

100 Days for Girls hygiene kits have been purchased in Victoria Falls thanks to a generous donation from the Stanwood Camano Island Chapter group, who put the funding together for this. Sewn by the local Days for Girls Enterprise group in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 100 per cent of this grant goes back into the initiative… Read more »