August 6th, 2009 Zimele receives the Courageous Leadership Award from the Willowcreek Association and Worldvision. Click here for more. 
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Meet the Vukuzenzele Egg Vendors
This savings group pooled their savings to start a group business. They bought 18 trays of eggs for each of them to sell. They sold the eggs at 2x their costs, which allowed them to repay the group loan and ...
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Meet the Zamakuhle Savings Group
In Zulu, zamakuhle means ‘we are trying to achieve the best’. This name signifies the hope that the savings group brings to the women, since many of the 10 women are grandmothers of orphaned grandchildren due to AIDS.More...
Meet the iThemba Barbers
The three boys used their savings to buy a shaving kit and start a haircutting business. They use the profits to pay for their schooling and to buy food for their siblings.
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Meet the Ubumbano Savings Group
The women of the Ubumbano savings group started a collective farming venture using land donated by a group member and by pooling their savings to buy seeds, fertilizer, and farming tools. They have already used half of the field ...
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Zimele Expands to Address the Crisis in Zimbabwe
In May 2008, we launched Zimele Zimbabwe to address the worsening economic crisis. Unfortunately the situation has not improved since then with the crisis of hitting the country and its people at every level: political, economic, food, and health.
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