WOW!

Dear Friends,

It has been a hectic week for us at Nhaka Foundation. Monday and Tuesday we spent in meetings along side colleagues from Child Protection Society, Child Resource Institute and JF Kapnek Trust. The meetings were to brainstorm and finalize data collection tools for a national survey on actors in Early Childhood development. On Tuesday afternoon the road trips began, with teams going to all four corners of the country to see what is going on. I travelled to East of Zimbabwe and was very shocked by what we saw there. I am not going to pre-empt the survey report, suffice to say that you are all going to have a look at it once we are done in two weeks time. That has consumed much of my time but we are really glad and fortunate enough to have the received funding from OSISA to do this work.

In the same vein we are equally happy to receive three American friends who are visiting from Pennsylvania, Maryland and California. We are excited to be hosting them as Nhaka Foundation and hope that their stay with us will be exciting and rewarding for them! Already we have been part of a hectic schedule with them but I believe this is what we were called to do by god. Being Christians themselves we are very excited that God is at work and rising up young men and women in the US who love God and want to be involved in the work we are carrying out in Zimbabwe. Their visit has brought a lot of confirmation to what I personally feel God has been saying to me about working with children in Zimbabwe. In addition the way we got connected with them is nothing short of a testimony in itself.

It looks like the rains are slowly leaving us, I am not happy with the crop situation that I saw when travelling and I pray that the many hands working to assist in Zimbabwe will be able to help coordinate some form of food relief. It is one thing when you are going around the country and you see that even though there now is food and products in the supermarkets and stores, affording such is the impossible for the majority of the population. With high unemployment in our country and with people unable to access the “Obamas” (the US dollars as they are known in Zim) it remains to be seen how best communities can be supported.

With prayers and love from the fun capital, Harare!

Patrick

If you look for the good in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
 Abraham Lincoln