Projects being sponsored by Love Zimbabwe

Projects Being Sponsored by Love Zimbabwe

Love Zimbabwe promotes village projects and different artists from Africa. Products range from hand painted batiks, ceramics, wooden crafts and sisal cactus products. These are environmentally friendly and vary from time to time. We encourage people to work and to earn sustainable income. We sell our crafts in Greenwich market and different London City companies such as British American Tobacco , HSBC, Dresdner, Pfizer,The Royal Opera House, and The Deutsche bank. We proudly present the uniqueness of Zimbabwean Arts and crafts in different festivals.25% of our takings goes to sponsor village projects and education.

Textiles

	Batik making ---Paintings based on African scenes. This is a project based in Marondera, East of Harare. Timothy Mandikuvaza is the leader of this project. The aim of this project is to train school leavers to paint. Timothy works with his wife and this project brings income for his family. We have sold quite a lot of the cushion covers and wall hangings.

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Sisal Products		Wood Works
The project is based in Masvingo. These are grass woven products. The colours are plant leaf natural dyes.			This project is based in Kotwa growth point.

Education

A project sponsored mostly by the selling of Arts and Crafts. Many thanks to the following corporates for allowing us free space to sell our crafts-British American Tobacco(BAT), The British Museum, Christian Aid, Marie Curie,King's College Hospital, The Deutsche bank, HSBC-Canary Wharf, London Tower 42, and Dresdner bank. We also have our main sponsor Sandra Davis of The Trefache Caravan Site based in Mynachlogddu Village in Wales. She started sponsoring children in 2003. Diana Makawa, one of the pupils she sponsored, is now working in one of the village primary schools as a teacher. We sponsor children at Kotwa Secondary School and Goromonzi High School, whose parents are not able to pay for their education. Mebias Shereni, one of our sponsored children, lives at our community center, stand no.215 Kotwa. We intend to expand this community center so that we can have at least five pupils living in the center every year.