Thank you from Zimbabwe scholarship students
Category: Africa
Update from Morocco – Imik Simik Women’s Association for Rural Development
Does anyone else feel as though the last year and a half has been a bad dream? However, as we stir from the enforced rest of the last 18 months without travel I’m happy to share that slowly but surely the new headquarters of the Imik Simik Women’s Center in Morocco has been coming… Read more »
An engineer in the making?
STEM studies are important everywhere, and Adelaida has a passion for mathematics, chemistry and physics. If this was anywhere else, it might not be as surprising, but this is Tanzania – where girls education is still not a priority, so every girl we can help get one step closer to their dream – is… Read more »
Foundation Update: Tree Planting in Tanzania
In honor of Earth Day, we’re pleased to share that two Grand Circle Foundation-supported schools in Tanzania have received Karatu Environmental Office awards for their work planting trees. Since 2012, Grand Circle Foundation has donated $8,732 and planted about 4,320 trees at seven different schools. In this video, take a visit to one of… Read more »
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 »
World Water Day 2021 in Tanzania
Monday 22nd March was World Water day. Sadly in Tanzania we were honouring 21 days mourning as we had just lost our President and so we headed out to Karatu on Weds. What a day. What a project. Did you know 800 million people still cannot access basic clean water? Did you know globally 4/5… 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 »
Foundation Update: How Lights Saved Maasai Livestock in Tanzania
Every day, we come across stories that tear our hearts out or make us sad—and some stories ignite such a passion within us, we are driven to find a way to help. My passion was ignited when a pride of 17 lions went on a killing spree in the Maasai village of Tarangire, Tanzania, killing… 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 »
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