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Zimbabwe Challenge

Locality: Woorim, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3410 0541

Address: PO Box 2139 4507 Woorim, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.zimbabwechallenge.org

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22.01.2022 Mutemwa Leprosy Care Centre. I phoned Fr. Thomas in November and he reported he was just completing a week’s work at the Centre. He had taken off his Priest’s h...at and had put on his builder’s hat. He was rebuilding the old broken down, condemned pigsties! Amazing man. Sir Oinksalot progeny had become so numerous that there was no room in the 2 new pigsties for all the piglets so he was making the old pigsties habitable. Thanks to your donations and buying of the Gift Card chooks and pigs, we were able to send him US$500 (Aust$700) to help with roofing, nails, cement, tools, vehicle expenses etc. Fr. Thomas returned in December to complete the renovations. The photo shows some piglets in the old pigsty before it had been renovated. Fr. Patience Tigere, Franciscan Administrator of the Centre reports:- It is also important to express our gratitude for our self-sustaining projects which help the centre so much. In this regard I would like to let you know that we have sent Tinashe, one of the resident’s sons, to do a short course on how to care for the pigs, and he managed to get a ‘B’ class. We have used the money from the poultry project to pay for this, which our only money is making project at the moment. We also managed to service our ambulance from the profits of the poultry egg production as well. We have 467 layers and they are producing 12 to 18 crates of eggs a day. We sell to our local market and still cannot meet the local demand. So, we are asking if we can get a little bit of extra capital so that there will be 1000 layers, and with this we should see a brighter future for the Centre. Thank you Lord! (Tim says, US $ 6,000- Aus$8000, will do it) See more

21.01.2022 Sponsored Tertiary Education - Takudzwa. Takudzwa phoned me on 10th November to say she had completed her high school exams. She will get the results in January next year so we pray that she gets the outcomes which will enable her to enter the university the Lord wants her to go to. We pray that she will fulfil the potential God has given her. Thank you Lord.

20.01.2022 STOP PRESS!! the new piggery at Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Centre is finished. WhooHoo. Zimbabwe Challenge, with your help, has now completed 3 self-sufficiency projects to help 45 leprosy sufferers and disabled adults - 2 piggeries and 1 hen house for 450 layers. Now the second piggery is finished the pigs and piglets "are enjoying space and fellowship" as Fr. Thomas so delightfully puts it!... I received this report, "I have to tell you also that the pigs have been a saving grace to help with income, because they are selling them locally and getting an income, despite everything, so all is not lost." It is wonderful how small things can make a difference; a $5 donation here, a $10 donation there, and in no time at all there is enough for a new piggery! Heartfelt thanks to all of you for your generous support. Mutemwa is suffering along with everyone else in the difficult times. Even sourcing medicines for the patients is hard. We are blessed to be able to help. Heavy rain delayed the completion of the new piggery. This was a blessing for the Centre's maize and vegetable garden.

16.01.2022 Pray for:- Dr Ken Elliott, Australian Christian doctor in his 80s, was kidnapped by al-Qa’ida Muslim militants in January 2016. For almost 2 years he has been held for ransom in terrible conditions somewhere in Mali, West Africa. Ken and his wife Jocelyn set up a hospital in a remote region of the neighbouring country Burkina Faso, and dedicated 40 years of their lives to bringing God’s love to the people there.

16.01.2022 June 2018 Exciting news! 2 new self-sufficiency projects started this quarter, helping 19 widows and 1 widower looking after 63 orphans. Farming God’s Way/Foundations for Farming (FfF) Fr. Thomas started the training of 2 groups of destitute widows Firstly 10 widows caring for 30 orphans. The widows range from 35 years to 80 years old; 1 from each village near Fr Thomas’ rural home so the other villagers will be inquisitive about what she is doing and learn from her! ... Secondly 9 widows and 1 widower ranging in age from 34 to 76 years old, caring for 33 orphans also in a rural area. Remember we previously sent them blankets and cooking pots. Here they are receiving their bags of seed and fertilizer. See more

15.01.2022 Foundations for Farming

10.01.2022 Zimbabwe Challenge Self-Sufficiency Projects Sponsored Tertiary Education Wonderful news! The young woman we are sponsoring through university received very go...od results in her final school exams. She said, My heart’s desire is to go to university and get a degree in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy or mining.I believe God is my provider. Isaiah 54:13 ‘All your sons will be taught by the Lord, and great will be your children’s peace.’ Zimbabwe has many mineral resources, including gold, iron ore, coal, diamonds and copper. Rio Tinto has an operation there. Even more wonderful news!! She has been accepted into a BSc Hons degree in Geology at the University of Zimbabwe. UZ is the best of the 3 universities in Zimbabwe. She texted us, Thank you very much for your love and support. I cannot thank you enough, only our Lord will thank you for us. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. May God Almighty bless you and the donors. May He enlarger your territory. Before the university term started she completed a 4 week computer course. The University Orientation Day was on 22 February and her first lecture was on Monday 26th February 2018. There must be great joy in her home at this wonderful news. We are blessed to be part of it. Thank you Lord. Its Good Friday today. God so loved the world, and YOU, that he gave his only son Jesus, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3 ;16 On Sunday it is Easter. I pray that God will bless YOU. Getting ready for life at university - Lap top, cell phone, iron and, of course, a large jug for making coffee!

09.01.2022 Here is a photo of one of the 9 destitute widows we helped start up their own businesses with our self-sufficiency solar lights project. This woman’s business is rearing rabbits for sale. It is very successful with demand outstripping supply as there are 70 Chinese working on a nearby dam who love eating rabbits. Another woman is breeding chickens, again for food, again successful One widow makes lovely quilts and cushion covers, but cannot sell them as people do not have m...oney for ‘luxuries’. This project has been suspended because of the cash crisis in Zimbabwe. We are considering the Foundations for Farming/Farming God’s Way program whereby US$50 provides training, seed and fertilizer so a women can grow enough maize to feed her family for a year, with some money left over for school fees, uniforms etc.

07.01.2022 Situation in Zimbabwe We thank the Lord for the peaceful transition of power in Zimbabwe. We pray for the new government to provide relief to the poorest of the... poor. THANK YOU LORD ALL GLORY TO GOD This Christmas and in the year ahead, may you experience ‘Life in all its fullness’, the life which Jesus came to bring. Merry Christmas. John 3:16

07.01.2022 Summer December 2017 Zimbabwe Challenge Self-Sufficiency Projects Disabled Children’s cattle project. Great news! This project has NOW stared! On 17th Septembe...r 2017 Fr. Thomas texted, I have just bought my first Jairos Jiri Project heifer today!! I bought it locally and using my small paddock for grazing so there is no need for vet, herdsman costs until I get more away from my area. It cost US $320 and sold for US $390, profit US $70. Be blessed. Yeehaa! Thank you Lord!! Fr. Thomas with heifers for sale! Since that text he has bought a further 5 heifers. Fr. Thomas phoned and reported that he had sold another heifer for a profit of US $50. He also stated that, The problem is that people do not have cash to buy the cattle. He will be returning kumusha - to his rural home to sell more cattle as people gather for Christmas. We pray the Holy Spirit will guide Fr. Thomas through these issues. See more

05.01.2022 We are blessed to be able to help a group of destitute women caring for 37 orphans. Here they each receive 2 cooking pots. God is love.

01.01.2022 At last! I am updating our news on Zimbabwe Challenge! 1. Self-Sufficiency Project for Jairos Jiri Children's Rehabilitation Centre - a cattle fattening farm. The profits will go to help run the Centre eg buying clothes and medicines, maintaining buildings and so on (No cash given). We have been 'waiting on God' for his plan - and here it is. We have been offered some land for free! in a rural area 2 hours from Harare. I visited it last September 2015 and it is suitable for... the project. Plus we have been offered help from Rob van Vuuren in Harare who is a consultant on cattle. There may also be guidance from a farmer in the area. Thank you Lord Please go to our website www.zimbabwechallenge.org for details

01.01.2022 2. Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Centre 45 leprosy sufferers and disabled adults We have sent funding for the second piggery and we expect the building to be finished soon. There has been a delay as the building contractor was not using the correct plans set out by the Pig Board so some alterations had to be made. However it won’t be long before everything is complete and we have lots of happily housed piglets. This is our third self-sufficiency project here, following on from the first piggery and 450 laying hen house. Here is a photo of the foundations being dug. If you look carefully you will see ‘our’ first piggery on the right. Thank you Lord!

01.01.2022 Destitute Women self-sufficiency Farming God’s Way/Foundations for Farming. Regretfully we have had to postpone this project until 2018 as the training had t...o be completed before the rains came in November, and Fr. Thomas was not able to fit this in amongst his other activities. We have to be careful not to load Fr. Thomas with too much as we cannot afford to employ someone. Thank you Lord. See more