General

The Women's Empowerment project in Kariba, Zimbabwe, has now been running for seven months.
A brief insight and outlook!

The year 2022 has come to an end. We would like to take a look back at some of the activities of the association Projekte für Afrikahilfe over the past year. PDF download here

In terms of soil fertility, Zimbabwe has optimal conditions for agricultural production. In many places, however, there is a lack of water. This has visibly improved thanks to investments in water storage projects. What does this mean for the population's food problems? How is this issue linked to the current political situation?

Thanks to the groundwater borehole project near Harare, young women from the Shamwari Yemwanasikana (SYS) center have access to clean water.

Even in Switzerland, many people do not always have it easy economically and are more or less dependent on state social assistance. Because this is lacking in Zimbabwe, the problems for elderly, single or frail women can become extremely acute.

Lake Mutirikwe (formerly Kyle) is located near the huge ruins of Great Zimbabwe, south-east of Masvingo. The lake was dammed in 1960 to irrigate the sugar cane fields near Triangle, 200 km to the south. The village is not located directly on the lake, but makes use of its abundance of fish when the water level is high enough. The drinking and service water

On our last trip to Zimbabwe and Zambia, we visited a school between Makuti and Karoi with our socially committed guests to find out more about it on site. The school teaches more than 1000 children from the surrounding area. The school buildings date back to the time when Zimbabwe was still prosperous.

Surviving in difficult times thanks to small fish Shortly before sunset, countless kapenta fishing boats appear on Lake Kariba. Kapenta are anchovies (small herrings) that are dried in the sun on huge sheets of cloth after being caught. When darkness falls, the fishermen shine powerful spotlights into the water to attract the small fish. After a while

Shona sculpture, named after the most populous tribe in Zimbabwe (the "Shona" - the other major tribe being the "Ndebele"), is certainly the most important art form to emerge from Africa in the 20th century, after Europeans mistakenly considered African art to be rather traditional, primitive and not very modern during the colonization of Africa and in the decades that followed.