Munya is one of 52 vulnerable children who benefit from Chiedza feeding program
Nyachuru's students celebrate the 2011 harvest.
Future students for Maori Primary School outside one of their current 'classrooms'.
ZimArt's Fundraising Initiatives
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Our main commitment for 2011, however, was to raise the funds to build the first double classroom block, for the Maori Primary School, in rural Mazoe West. The initial budget was $48,545, including $4,000 worth of bricks made by the community. Thanks to the generous donations of angel donors and ZimArt's fundraising efforts, we have been able to meet our first fundraising goal, materials have been bought and delivered to the site and construction has started. Our next goal, for which we are currently raising funds, is to have a borehole drilled and hand-operated pump installed. We look forward to sharing the results of the first stage of the construction of this much needed primary school in the spring of 2012. If you would like to find out more or help with this or any of our other projects please email us.
Since 2006 ZimArt has also been working on the ground in Zimbabwe to identify and fund worthwhile grassroots projects supporting HIV/AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children. Since that time we have helped sustain the children at the Nyachuru Secondary School, the Chiedza Community Based Orphan Welfare Organization, and St. Marcellin Children’s Village. This year we are also building on the support we have given to Shingirirai Trust over the past two years.
Since 2006 donors have helped us pay for school fees, uniforms and medical assistance for seven HIV/AIDS orphans, who we visit regularly.
ZimArt donates sculptures to various other fund raising initiatives. These have included the Peterborough’s Millennium Park Community Fundraisers for HIV/AIDS; Suitcases for Africa; various chapters of the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign; Peterborough AIDS in Africa Coalition; AMREF; 60 Million Girls; Give a Day; Mission Zimbabwe; and Canada Africa Partnership AIDS.
ZimArt raised funds for and donated funds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation from 2003 – 2010.
If you are organizing a fundraiser to help with the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa and would like to have a Zimbabwean stone sculpture donated for your event, contact us.
All funds raised by, or donated to ZimArt-in-Trust are held in trust, and are directed to identified, worthwhile projects, with no administration fees or other deductions. Funds are never simply handed over to a recipient, but rather the materials or other resources needed are purchased and delivered to the site.
In 2011, thanks to the Friends of Howard Hospital, a quarter of the space in a forty foot container was given to ZimArt-in-Trust to ship goods needed by the projects to Zimbabwe. Generous donations were received from both the local community and further afield. A total of 137 totes full of everything from books to garden tools, from baby clothes to sewing machines, are now en route to Zimbabwe.
ZimArt has an ongoing partnership with MAMA Africa Foundation, a Montreal-based registered charity with very compatible objectives.
In 2011, ZimArt is supporting and promoting Health Partners International of Canada's fundraising efforts, so they can provide medical aid and work on building health care capacity in Zimbabwe.
ZimArt-in-Trust has a dedicated Canadian bank account. It the charitable arm for ZimArt but is not a registered charity. The bureaucracy and officialdom involved in operating with such a designation could substantially reduce the effectiveness of the way in which we operate.