1. Voluntary forbearance especially from indulgence of an appetite or craving
2. To refrain deliberately and often with effort of self-denial from an action or practice
Savanna Madamombe: Executive Program Director/Co-Founder
Is responsible for developing communications and publicity plans: recruiting and managing volunteer staff as well as shaping and implementing goals, policies and strategic objectives. She is also responsible for engaging donor community in the USA and Zimbabwe.
To the Zimbabwean in the Diaspora
We living abroad may have a false sense of comfort, I had the opportunity to visit our country after 5 years and the images are still fresh in my mind. I had not seen my son and family in as many as 5 yrs. It will take a long time for me to recover from the heartbreak of leaving a little boy and to come back to a stranger, a young man I spoke to for 5 years and hardly knew and I was only going to be in Zimbabwe for 3 weeks.
This is not a story unique to me as I know many more of us who have been forced into situations as this or worse. The impact of HIV/AIDS, drought and a
plunging economy on the ordinary Zimbabwean is unbelievable. The sick with no medication or food. The orphans, the old and abandoned.The young with no family structure and support due to mostly HIV/AIDS death. The educated with no jobs. The list goes on.
I can hardly express to you what it felt like to see all these things face to face, and to realize how much a lot had changed, including the people, while I held an old picture of how things used to be. I kept thinking how fortunate I was, because I had Hope, something we are losing fast.
We need to keep hope alive.
Ken Mabaye Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder Responsible for setting up the goals and strategies, managing finances and establishing strategic partnerships with donor community in the U.S.A.
FROM THE C.E.O
Hope.
It is what keeps us getting up each day and carrying on when life seems to get a little rough.We hope that we will feel better, we hope that we will have more money, we hope that things will get better. We hope.
Right now, in Zimbabwe, people are living with little or no hope. HIV/AIDS has robbed them of that. Fathers gone. Mothers gone. Children gone. This scourge has affected everyone.
We will not overcome this devastation by standing on the sidelines. We must all pitch in. We must help restore that most essential ingredient to life: Hope.
Many years ago, Alexander Pope said, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast".
