ZANE Business Projects
ZANE helps to people in the density areas around Zimbabwe's major cities to start their own businesses. In this way ZANE is enabling communities to become self-sufficient and is helping to re-build Zimbabwe society.
Examples of ZANE Business Projects
Updated October 2009. Names have been changed for security reasons.
-We started 2 new tuck-shop projects in Community A with a lady called Constance and a young woman named Belinda. Constance was referred by the
nursing team after frequently attending their clinic and bible study. She is
married with two children, one of whom was not attending school because
she could not afford to pay his school fees. Her husband is unemployed
and she is disabled following the amputation of one of her legs after an
injury. She has done extremely well with her project so far, having already
restocked twice since she started on the 20th of the month. Her son,
mentioned above, is assisting her with the bookkeeping.
Belinda is a 16 year old girl who became pregnant and has
no means of support. She is doing relatively well and seems to be much
more lively and cheerful since having started.
Ongoing business project:
This lady is now able
to care for her family using the profits from her
sewing business!
- God’s Way Cooperative has received a large order from a local clinic
for batik wall hangings and table cloths. This will keep them busy for a
while, but it is imperative that they actively start looking for lucrative and
sustainable markets themselves lest the dependency cycle we are trying
so hard to eradicate be perpetuated
- Two men from the ‘Men of Vision’ group in Community B who wanted to start
business projects have finally started their carpentry project. Their plan is
to make coffins, doors and furniture. We are excited by this project as we
believe that if HIV positive men can make a success of their
business and improve the living conditions of their family, it will cause
other men in the community to sit up and take notice. We hope that men
like this can have a powerful impact in their communities as their dignity is
restored by working and therefore reducing the donor dependency and
matriarchal dominance that currently prevails in the Community B society.
- Rosalyn started a tuck-shop this month with assistance from a
donation. A ZANE staff member
has been assisting her with a business plan and she seems to be off to a
good start. She has built a small structure adjoining her home where she
stores and sells her merchandise from, and has seemed to have grasped
the important concepts of re-stocking and accounting. Even more pleasing
is how her countenance and attitude to life have changed as a result of
having her own means of income; she is now always singing praises to
God.
To ensure that this strategic work continues, please donate today.
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