Funeral Saving Funds

I was invited to a funeral a couple of days ago. I was kind of curious, but Wellington and I already had plans, so we declined. It seems like funerals are a fairly common occurrence around here and I have no doubt that one of these days, I will be invited to another one.
One of [...]

My Zimele Projects

In my three months here, Rosetta basically wants help with three things. First is to help out with whatever office work she has. Second is to help finish building the Swayimane Accomodation Center where I’m staying (it needs to be able to hold 10-15 people in July and right now there’s only one shower and [...]

First Impressions

I struggled for the past few days on how to accurately describe Zimele in just a couple of paragraphs. There’s so much that I learned in the last couple of days and I’m really excited to share, but it’s difficult to get into words. I finally got to see Zimele in action today. Previously, I’ve [...]

New Staff!

am so happy to announce that we have added two new community facilitators to our Self Help / Savings Group program. We have been looking for additional community facilitators as an increasing demand for new SHG / savings groups was pushing to workload of our current staff past capacity.
What I love about our organization and [...]