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  • Be a Part of our Donate a Doll Campaign!

    Make one $35 donation and you will:

    • + Send a doll to an orphan child
    • + Provide income for the Zimele Crafter who made the doll
    • + Support the Zimele Orphan Fund


  • Support Zimele

    Be part of a team that empowers individuals, cultivates self-reliance to communities, restores human dignity and is a long term solution for HIV/AIDs.

    Stand on your own two feet.

    Find Out How

  • Zimele is a unique non-profit organization

    which seeks not only to meet the daily needs of South Africans in the Kwazulu Natal region today, but also to build the physical, financial, and emotional infrastructure of their lives to improve the entire region.

    Learn about our programs

    Give a man a fish you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime.
    - Lao Tze, Chinese philosopher

Make a difference, get involved!

Your help, no matter the shape or form, is valuable in helping us enrich the lives of the women of Zimele. Here’s a few ways you can take action in changing the world.


Here at Zimele, we like to celebrate the success stories that have become characteristic of the women who are a part of these communities in South Africa. Here we would like to highlight some of the achievements of the Zimele women who have become positive influences and inspirations to those around them. Doris Ncobo joined a Zimele Self-Help Group in...
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