Simukai annual report 2014 by Corny Poems Inc.

Annual Report

2014

“He lifted me from a slimy pit…. and set my feet upon a rock” Psalms 40 vs 1-3

Table of Contents Acronyms Board Chairman’s Statement Director’s Statement Our Mission, Vision and Goal

3 4 6 8

CHILD PROTECTION Street Children Intervention Advocacy and Prevention

9 10

EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT Simukai Pre-School Catch Up Program Youth Education Pack (YEP) Scouting Construction of a two classroom block

17 18 19 20 21

INCREASING SUSTAINABLE HOUSEHOLD FOOD AND INCOME SECURITY The ZOE Orphan Empowerment Project Increasing food security Value Addition Income Generating Activities under the Hope HIV funded project Village Savings and Loans Association

23 23 24 24 25

HEALTH PROMOTION I Can Walk Again Without Falling

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Human Resources Finance Funding partners and level of funding

29 29 30

NETWORKING PARTNERS Notes

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“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;As agriculture is the most common activity for ensuring food security, the ZOE project provides maize certiďŹ ed seed and chemical fertilisers to the children in support for a better agricultural yield.â&#x20AC;?

M A S Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

E L P M Acronyms AIDS

Acquired Immune Deﬁciency Syndrome

AGRITEX

Agricultural Extension Services

BEAM

Basic Education Assistance Module

CHH

Child Headed Household

CRC

Child Rights Clubs

DSS

Department of Social Services

FACT

Family AIDS Caring Trust

HIV

Human Immune-Virus

Head of Household

Human Resource

IEC

Information Education and Communication

IGA

Income Generating Activities

MWAGCD

Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development

NANGO

National Association of Non-Governmental Organizations

NGO

Non-Governmental Organizations

NRC

Norwegian Refugee Council

OVC

Orphans and Vulnerable Children

OSSG

Out of School Study Group

PSI

Population Services International

Simukai

Simukai Child Protection Programme

STI

Sexually Transmitted Infection

VFU

Victim Friendly Unit

VFC

Victim Friendly Courts

WEI

World Education Incorporation

YEP

Youth Education Pack

ZNA

Zimbabwe National Army “He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

Board Chairmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Statement

M A S Despite several challenges that the organisation faced during 2014, Simukaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities continued to progress and several life changing stories were recorded for hundreds of disadvantaged children, their families and communities. The organisation prides in its work and this Annual Report gives an opportunity to our valued readers, sponsors, mentors and associates to take a look at some of the milestones. We are adapting to a rapidly changing context and our work is also evolving to match the changes we see in the world particularly in child protection. Looking back at 2014, I can say that I am proud of our work!

Mr E.T. Chikoshana Board Chairman

Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

It is a reality that our job, our mission, and our need to prevent child abuse in all its forms gets more challenging each year as resources continue to dwindle yet the need increases. There are more emerging issues concerning the child and the family and as we move forward there is need for collective action and creation of partnerships that amplify our voices and campaigns. On that note, we acknowledge the fact that we are part of a growing global movement in Child Protection. With support from our strategic partners, we have reached commendable milestones. We salute them!

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...our need to prevent child abuse in all its forms gets more challenging each year as resources continue to dwindle yet the need increases.

We would also like to acknowledge and thank the Government of Zimbabwe for some notable policy reforms policy reforms that stimulate economic growth and have improved social services availability and accessibility. Increasingly, we have found meaning in our work and are better positioned in the Government’s efforts to make Zimbabwe a better place.

In terms of governance and compliance with organisational constitutional provisions, we managed to carry out an external audit, quarterly Management Board meetings as well as the 2014 Annual General Meeting. During the AGM, partners converged to and review our work leading to the strategic review process that took place in the same year. I would like to take pride in mentioning that this particular exercise was a success and we have made particular changes in our implementation design and model to suit the ever changing context in which we live and work in. Simukai has implemented different projects that facilitate the realisation of children’s rights and empowering them economically through ﬁnancial support to start income generating projects.

I am thankful to our funding partners, local and international development partners, Government and the many communities that we work with. Your dedication to Simukai’s work is an important investment in the future of Zimbabwean Children and their families.

As we move forward, we envision growth both geographically and in the resource base while we remain guided by the Strategic document. The organisation continues to recognise honesty, trustworthy, conﬁdentiality, empathy and integrity as values that it identiﬁes with. In 2015, we set out to reach out to more and impact on the lives of more children. We honour your partnership with us as we remain determined and centred on the needs and rights of children.

Mr E.T. Chikoshana Board Chairman

“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

Director’s Statement

M A S Mrs. F.B. Matsanga Director

Dear Reader!

Simukai continues to pride in engaging, invigorating, cordial and mutually beneﬁcial relationship that we enjoy with our traditional leaders...

Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

I would like to extend a warm and cordial welcome and greetings to our valued readers of this 2014 Edition of the Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report! Ebenezer for the Lord has carried us thus far into another year of programming, especially under the continued liquidity crisis characterized by dwindling financial resources to execute the targets, goals and objectives of the organization. Simukai Child Protection Programme has continued to soldier on despite adversaries and operational challenges afflicting the Programme. Programming funding has continued to dwindle in the last year mainly owing to the persistence of the so-called Euro-Zone financial crunch obtaining in Europe (mostly affecting Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy) where most funding partners or donor agencies` offices are resident. As charity begins at home, these mainline or traditional donor agencies are also grappling with poorly performing economies back home, leading to funding grants to development projects including Simukai being drastically affected by way of significant budget cuts. In some unfortunate cases, being stopped altogether as these affected countries struggle to put their own economies back on track. Children continue to face abuse in many forms including rape, sodomy, neglect, abandonment owing to family

E L P M disintegration, economic hardships, orphanhood amongst major reasons for the plight that children and minors find themselves in. However, despite such a background, Simukai together with its able and indispensible stakeholders, fellow Child Servicing Organizations (CSOs)and other likeminded organizations` resolve is more galvanized than ever before to be the household name and protectors of first resort of such children living in difficult circumstances. At this juncture I would like to thank our parent ministry, which is the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare (MPSLSW) through the Departments of Social Services and Child Welfare and Probation Services, respectively, for policy direction on cases involving child-clients referred to and committed in the care of Simukai.

I take this opportunity to extent my sincere gratitude to the Trustees, Management Board and the funding partners of Simukai Child Protection Programme for their steadfast and unfailing counsel and policy direction on strategic issues in successfully running the Programme in the year 2014 and in providing funding to drive forward the goals, mission, objectives and the attendant targets respectively. I am humbled by the morale and material support that the City of Mutare, Chipinge Town Council, Rusape Town Council, Nyanga and Mutare Rural District Councils, churches, community and individuals in their respective capacities, individually, severally immensely and meaningfully contributed in one way or another in supporting and furthering the cause of Simukai in the preceding year. May our good Lord abundantly bless you for being the distinguished “allweather” friends of Simukai who steadfastly stood with us even in the face of hard economic times characterized by scanty ﬁnancial resources. You sacriﬁced to share those same treasured resources with us to assist the rights holders of Simukai. I salute and commend you very highly for exhibiting such generosity. Special thanks go to my dedicated staff members at Simukai Child Protection Programme or rather “foot soldiers” as I elect to call them. They impressed beyond measure with their diligence and commitment to the call of duty. My message to you all is: “Keep the team together, continue the great

team work, pulling our weight together and keeping Simukai on top of the league in the Development landscape”.

Simukai continues to pride in engaging, invigorating, cordial and mutually beneﬁcial relationship that we enjoy with our traditional leaders such as village heads (Sabhuku), headmen (Ishe) and chiefs (Mambo) in the discharge of our mandate, especially the component of interfacing with communities and disseminating vital information and communication rapidly and effectively to the target populations. Traditional leaders are gate keepers in so much as they are custodians of social values and cultural norms, and entrance and penetration to rural communities is critical. Traditional leaders have made Simukai`s work bearable, rewarding and sustainable as we enjoy unlimited access to communities owing to the former`s buy-in and endorsement of Simukai`s interventions, that primarily aim to “protect and care” for children to enjoy a bright future. Forging amiable ties and synergies with traditional leaders is therefore key in unlocking and leveraging these potentialities in ensuring project sustainability and success in any community development context. I also hereby extend my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all local authorities, including municipalities and councils, for accepting Simukai to operate in their areas of jurisdiction and for realizing and acknowledging that for there to be any meaningful service delivery to be fulﬁlled, children should be at peace, well provided, protected and cared for. This realization and acceptance by our local authorities in Manicaland Province has made our work much lighter as the age old adage goes, “…many hands make work light...” Thank you for all your support during 2014. From the Trustees and myself, we wish you a productive 2015. Enjoy the reading!

Mrs. Francisca Barbara Matsanga Director

“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

Our Vision A child friendly socio-economic environment in which, children and youths enjoy their rights and contribute to their communities.

Our Mission Facilitating the realization of the social, physical, psychological and, spiritual needs and rights of vulnerable children and youths through relationship building, care and support with the participation of families and community.

M A S Our Goal

Ensuring that children and youths achieve their full potential and become productive and responsible members of society is the goal for the organization

â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we move forward, we envision growth both geographically and in the resource base while we remain guided by the Strategic document.â&#x20AC;?

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INTRODUCTION

Simukai Child Protection Programme, a registered child welfare organization under the Private Voluntary Organizations Act (Chapter 17:05) 27/12, was established in the year 2000 as a community response to the plight of abused, neglected and abandoned children, who live and work on the streets and those who live outside family environments. Since its inception, Simukai has strived to improve the quality of life of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC). Networking and collaboration with the community and other stakeholders has seen Simukai realizing its dream of alleviating poverty in families and witnessing the children growing to productive and successful adults. This has been possible, through working with communities and families to prevent various forms of child abuse while at the same time promoting and facilitating positive growth through various livelihood and economic projects. Community capacity building programmes rolled out by the organization assist the communities to create an enabling environment for children so that they are not pushed out of family environments. Simukai programming has helped in trying to mitigate the factors that push children outside the much stable family environment into the streets and other abusive environments.

CHILD PROTECTION

Street children intervention

The organisation continuously conducts street outreaches where they meet children from different backgrounds; major objective being to identify new cases of children living and working on the streets so that they can be reuniﬁed with their families. Increased numbers of children were recorded living and working on the streets in 2014. Out of the day and night street outreaches conducted in 2014, a total of 744 (540 males and 204 females) children were seen on the streets of Mutare, Rusape and Chipinge. Most of these children were seen vending, loitering and ferrying people’s luggage. Some were engaged in business especially in Rusape and

Chipinge leading to most of them refusing to attend psychosocial activities at the Centre claiming that they would lose business time.

The children living and working on the streets are predisposed to early sexual debut or onset into sexual activities in their various forms. Thus, on one side boys are exposed to sodomy from older boys and youths living and working on the streets. They act as intermediaries, pimps and runners to scout for and link commercial sex workers to prospective clients in the red-light district (that is, the inner-city where commercial sex workers frequent) of metropolitan areas in Rusape, Chipinge and Mutare. On the other side girls are conscripted into prostitution as callgirls at brothels mostly in the down-town precincts of the same towns. Such sexual activities expose children to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). The general observation shows that children coming from Chipinge rural areas and those who cross into Zimbabwe from the nearby Mozambique border work on the streets as temporary measure to raise funds for migration to South Africa in search of greener pastures and also as escape from poverty and abuse from their family homes. These groups of children are very vulnerable to all forms of abuse and possibility of child trafﬁcking can’t be ruled out considering the rate at which youths recruit each other to come to work on the streets Simukai remains cognisant of such dangers to the good health and well-being of children living and working on the streets. Therefore, the organisation engages the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in conducting night streets visits and community awareness campaigns on good child care and protection practices and holding joint parenting seminars with parents and guardians. Teen HIV Project and Youth Alive Zimbabwe often collaborate with Simukai in conducting awareness and HIV and AIDS sensitization and outreaches to parents and guardians Support from WEI has made it possible to implement the Out of School Study Group (OSSG) for the children living and working on the street. This is a programme that aims at teaching children living and working on the street basic literacy skills. It was noted that some of the children had never attended school. With the support from staff, “He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

volunteers and interns, children with the different literacy levels were assisted accordingly. 20 children beneﬁted from this project in Mutare. It is however more needful to establish the OSSG programme in Sakubva since it has been learnt that there is a large population of school drop outs in this area. This also enables targeting more vulnerable children than only the children living and working on street Other activities for children living and working on the street include gardening and cooking. As part of Simukai’s Rehabilitation process, the children as they come for activities at the centre are expected to get acquainted and be used to the work they will face at home in preparation for reuniﬁcation. The children are also taught on health and hygiene issues, which include washing their bodies and the clothes they wear.

Advocacy and Prevention Major focus of this unit is promotion and facilitation of child rights; awareness raising; managing the Place of Safety for survivors of abuse; facilitating psychosocial support activities; promoting and facilitating the grooming and formation of youth advocates through Child Rights Clubs (CRC) in schools; creating and maintaining sustainable networks that enable collaborated Advocacy interventions, effective lobbying of issues, information gathering and dissemination through media and other public forums.

M A S Through the World Education Incorporation funding, a total of 22 children were reunified out of a set target of 20 children. Five relapse cases were encountered and it was learnt that without first addressing the structural family problems that pushed children to the streets, it is not possible to have a 100% success on reunifications.

Some of the children living and working on street from 16 years of age do not feel the need to go back to formal education hence the need to establish a Vocational skills programme while providing a boarding facility for them. This gives the children a sense of accomplishment and an improved social status.

Children living and working on the street playing games with some Simukai volunteers at Simukai Centre, Mutare. Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

Child Rights Clubs Intervention (CRC)

The intervention was piloted in February 2014. It was formed by Simukai, but is owned by the respective communities, schools and most importantly, the children themselves. CRCs are a breeding ground of child advocates, empowered with knowledge of their rights and how to access them. They seek to advocate for child rights in their own communities making use of arts, such as drama, music, poetry and dance.

The clubs are run wholly by the children exercising their rights by nominating and voting for their peers as the executive committee, facilitated by two adult mentors. 10 Clubs (Mutare 5, Chipinge 2 and Rusape 3) with an average of 30 children per club ranging from grade 4 to 7 were formed in rural Primary Schools making use of structures that were already in place such as child led Child Protection Committees. It is important to note that 20 cases so far of varying forms of child abuse have come to light and been dealt with through these clubs with referrals being made to the Victim Friendly Unit for sexual abuse cases. The Victim Friendly Unit is interlinked with Simukai Child Protection Programme in a referral system whereby, cases reported to the Police are referred to Simukai should the child require a Place of Safety. Simukai reports cases of abuse to the Police for further investigations. The Victim Friendly Unit and Simukai also collaborate on the counselling of survivors of abuse.

E L P M Traditional Leaders Have a Part to Play in Observing Child Rights

The Action Aid Zimbabwe funded project being implemented by Simukai Child Protection Programme in Saunyama chieftainship area in Nyanga District in Nyautare, Nyatate and Mapako wards is also playing a vital role in ensuring that children’s rights are upheld. This is done through and with the help of the traditional leadership from the respective intervention areas. Trainings have been conducted to equip the traditional leaders with the necessary skills and information so that they educate and intervene accordingly in child rights issues affecting communities. Village Head Mudondo who is under Mapako ward 18 of Nyanga District had this to say during a Child Rights awareness and sensitization training for traditional leaders’ held at Mapako High School in the same ward on the 26th of September in the interest of enhancing good child care and protection for the promotion of Child Rights;

Above: Village Head Mudondo [seated centre in red blazer] with other community leaders at the community sensitization training for traditional leaders on Child Rights at Mapako High School, Nyanga.

“The fulfilment and observance of Child Rights is a responsibility of every traditional leader. We are the custodians of good social norms and values. If we enforce and promote child rights of today`s children, then we would have a healthy and protected generation of future leaders. This training has educated us as traditional leaders that children have a right to play, to protection, identity, shelter, play and good health amongst the fundamental children`s rights.”

Child message-writing is a way of reporting to sponsors or supporters on the community life and progress of Action Aid-funded project in Saunyama chieftainship are where the sponsored children reside. Real-life and personal experiences of the children on the child-sponsorship programme are featured on the child message pads. The children commented that their involvement in writing these child messages to their sponsors in Italy, gives them a feeling of being loved and friendship to their sponsor. Mary, 9, a pupil at Tsvito Primary School, Nyautare ward of Saunyama who is part of the pupils who compiled child messages, appreciated the message writing exercise. She commended that; “It improved my command and mastery of the English language, from all the practice with my classroom teacher to come up with a meaningful, informative and neat story about my family, community and Simukai and its partner, Action Aid’s work at my school.”

Child Message Pads

“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

Success Story - Reuniﬁcation

A mother reunified with her son.

The little boy stayed at Simukai Place of Safety for a few weeks during which he was fed, cared for and clothed. From the quiet, timid little soul he was, he began to blossom, and became quite the chatterbox, actively making his presence felt by all at the Place of Safety. After some tracings and enquiries, Brian’s mother was ﬁnally located. Brian was happily reuniﬁed with his mother. She had only intended to travel for a day or two to attend a funeral of which she had arranged for her sister to fetch Brian from the community nanny’s home at day end but her sister never showed leaving the nanny stuck with the baby as she had no contacts for any of Brian’s relatives. Brian’s mother fell severely ill and failed to contact her son, believing he was safe with her entrusted sister which was not the case.

M A S In dirty clothes and mutton cloth for a diaper, baby Brian (not real name) was brought to the Place of Safety one particularly frosty morning without a jersey or any warm jumper in sight. His hair was the colour of tan shoe polish and his belly was swollen showing signs of kwashiorkor from malnourishment. “His mother abandoned him about

2 months ago”, the old lady who had brought him explained. She explained that she was a poor widow who sustained herself by being a community nanny and did not have the means to feed nor look after the child hence had handed him over to the Police.

Categories of cases of children that were housed at the Place of Safety

Place of Safety

The Place of Safety is a temporary shelter that houses survivors of different kinds of abuse. In 2014, 44 children (25 female and 19 male) were accommodated at the Mutare Place of Safety, provided psychosocial support and counselling.

Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

12 children, 7 girls and 5 boys, were sheltered at the Rusape place of safety. Nine were reuniﬁed with their families while 3 were relocated to children’s homes. The Place of Safety in Mutare was granted an income generating loan of US$500 to start market gardening and Chicken layers project with the aim of supplementing the feeding of children accommodated. This was also done to help in generating funds for the purchase of essentials for its day to day functioning such as food stuffs and toiletries ranging from toilet tissue, bath and laundry soap, tooth paste and Vaseline. 20 point of lay pullets were bought and currently, the Department picks an average of 19 eggs per day which are sold and at times consumed by the children housed in the Place of Safety.

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The revitalized vegetable garden the Place of Safety.

Simukai stand during the September 2014 Agricultural Show when children were participating in different quiz competitions.

The layers project at Simukai.

Awareness Campaigns

35 awareness campaigns were conducted in the year with the Advocacy taking on a new approach of collaborated efforts for more holistic interventions. The majority of the campaigns were the partnership of Simukai and the Victim Friendly Unit of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in the Anti-sexual violence campaigns launched this year. Topics discussed included children’s rights and responsibilities, reporting systems and the effects of sexual abuse on children. These were aimed at sensitizing the community at grass roots level on issues affecting women and children.

Simukai also joined forces with the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development (MWAGCD) to campaign and lobby against child marriages particularly in more rural settings where traditional, cultural and religious values prevail. As part of its awareness campaigns, Simukai exhibited at the four-day Mutare Agricultural Show as part

Awareness campaign at Gombakomba in August 2014.

Commemorations

Day of the Street Child Commemorations

The International Day of Street Children is always an important opportunity to raise awareness of the plight of children, hence Simukai joins the World annually in commemorating the day. In 2014, the organisation held the event at a venue where the vulnerability of children is known to be rife in Mutare and where most abuse cases emanate from. A big extravaganza led by the famous comedian Sabhuku Vharazipi was held at Sakubva Flea Market later on moving the show to Chikanga Spar. The theme for the commemoration was “Demand a Day.” The objective was empowering street children to be heard. They have been discriminated against for too “He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

long, and yet people have an opportunity to change this if they listen to them. The 2014 commemoration was marked by activities that ranged from singing, dancing, quiz and beauty/ugly competitions. It is commendable that some children living and working on the street had the opportunity to perform their self-composed song about life on the street thereby displaying their different talents. The song was later posted on the organisation’s website receiving numerous encouraging comments from the public viewers. The Simukai Director delivered a speech centred on the disturbing rates of cases of rape that are being reported in the local media. Common cases include parents raping their own daughters, step parents raping their spouses’ daughters, boyfriends raping their girlfriend’s daughter and men being lied to by Sangomas that having sex with a virgin or a minor cures HIV and AIDS. All were warned to not to trust anyone even relatives in taking care of their children. Reports show that most of the perpetrators are relatives, friends or neighbours. The Zimbabwe Republic Police was applauded for its launch of the Anti-Sexual Violence Campaign. It is hoped that with concerted efforts from different stakeholders and the ZRP, cases of sexual abuse will decrease.

The Simukai Director delivering a speech during the Day of the Street Child Commemorations in June 2014.

M A S A cross- section of the crowd smiling to the entertainment provided. Within the crowd are Police Officers for Peace – June 2014.

Part of the crowd on the Day of the Street Child commemorations in June 2014. Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

Day of the African Child Commemorations held in Chitakatira and Nyanga

16 June of every year is the International Day of the African Child. Simukai joined other stakeholders in August 2014 for the belated commemorations of the day at Chitakatira. The Day of the African Child came into being in 1976 when thousands of black school children took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa. In a march more than half a mile long, they protested the inferior quality of their education and demanded their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds of young boys and girls were shot down by security forces. In the two weeks of protest that followed, more than a hundred people were killed and more than a thousand were injured. To honor the memory of those killed and the courage of all those who marched, the Day of the African Child has been celebrated every year since 1991, when it was ﬁrst initiated by the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union). The Day of the African Child commemorations held at Chitakatira Secondary School in August 2014 was organised by the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment, with support from various stakeholders including Simukai with support from its partner, ZOE Ministry. Advocacy messages on child rights and protection were shared during these commemorations. The Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment representative encouraged youth to be active advocates of their rights. With the prevailing unemployment rate in the country, all

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youths were urged to embark on income generating activities to improve on their household income. ZOE Ministry through its partner Simukai was applauded for the commendable work that they are doing through empowering children and youths to start income generating projects to lessen household poverty. Through this initiative, most lives have been transformed for the better and children have been reintegrated into school. Activities during the commemorations included drama, role plays, poems, singing, quiz, music and dancing. The poems and speeches focused mainly on the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

2014 theme for Day of the African Child Commemorations: “Child friendly, quality, free and compulsory education for all children in Africa”.

International Women’s Day

In conjunction with the International Citizenship Services (ICS-Progressio) volunteers, Simukai marked this day to celebrate with other women the world over. The day was successfully commemorated at the Simukai Sakubva Rehabilitation Centre on the 8th of March 2014. The theme was;”Equality for Women is Progress for all”. Women were on this day able to express themselves in issues affecting their rights and were motivated to stand up for their rights, especially on Sexual Reproductive Health issues and negotiating for safe sex. Lessons on Cervical Cancer were delivered The critical role played by women in the upbringing of children can never be underestimated thus the involvement in joining women in celebrating this day. Women have a key role to take care of children both physically and morally and where there is violence it is women and children who are affected. The life of a child revolves within a family and therefore ignoring women’s role too would be very unfair. Therefore Simukai works to strengthen families to ensure that children’s rights are not violated and that home environments become safe haven for children too. “He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

Christmas Parties for all the children and Spiritual Cultivation

M A S Children in Makoni District under the ZOE project smiling after receiving Bibles during their December 2014 Christmas party.

ICS volunteers doing a demonstration on the International Day of women in Sakubva on the 8th of March 2014 and the participants on the right.

Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

The last month of the year is the time for reﬂecting on all activities that took place throughout the year, the successes, failures, hurdles/challenges and suggested solutions to ensure the intended goal of the project is fulﬁlled. In December 2014, all children supported under the ZOE project celebrated the Christmas holiday through parties where each group was given the responsibility to choose how they want to celebrate the event. During that occasion, there was eating, fellowshipping, education and sharing of ideas in terms of successes and challenges encountered during running their various individual and group income generating activities. To ensure spiritual cultivation, all children were given the small New Testament Bibles and all group mentors received big Bibles with both the old and the New Testament. One boy commented that, “It has always been my wish to own a Bible. At least I can say this is a dream come true.”

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EDUCATION SUPPORT

The Simukai Sakubva Education and Rehabilitation Centre is the hub of most of the organization’s Education and Rehabilitation activities for children and youths. After its commissioning by His Excellency Yonezo Fukuda, the Japanese Ambassador on the 20th of March 2013, the Centre got fully occupied with new projects such as the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) funded Youth Education Pack (YEP) and the Catch-Up programme. The major goal of the two initiated projects is to empower orphaned and vulnerable children and youths through Vocational skills training and teaching basic literacy skills for them to be reintegrated into formal school. The Centre also operates a pre-school.

In Rusape, children were assisted with stationery in the form of exercise books, pens, rulers , pencils, uniforms, stockings and school shoes. However, due to the high poverty levels, it is unfortunate that many children the organisation is working with are still being chased away from school for non-payment of school fees. A total of 88 children in Rusape, were placed back in school; ﬁve under the government drop outs programme (Educational Transition Fund). Extra lessons for children from Zimbabwe Accelerated Learning Programme has helped some children starting advancing with their education after passing the Grade 7 examinations.

Simukai Pre-Scholars during the sports day - June 2014.

Mrs Jumbi from Happy Hearts pre-school who was the Guest of Honour on the 2014 graduation day for Simukai Pre-School.

Simukai Pre-School

As one of the objectives of the Education and Rehabilitation Department is to increase access to education for children, it has for the past ﬁve years been successfully operating a pre-school. The preschool is meant to gainfully occupy the siblings of the former street children who have been reintegrated into school and the children of the vulnerable families the organisation is working with.

In 2014, sporting activities for the children were introduced every Wednesday to ensure the physical being of the children. A total of 35 children, 15boys and 20 girls, participated in the Pre-school sports day at Sakubva Stadium in June 2014 where they came 4th out of the 15 pre-schools that were competing.

“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

The community greatly appreciates the pre-school intervention as it has relieved them of the burden of going with their young children to their business areas. One parent commented that she used to go with her children to her vending site because she could not afford a maid to take care of the children. In 2014, 39 children, 21 boys and 18girls, graduated from the Pre-school.

Catch Up Programme Simukai in partnership with NRC on the NORAD Catch-Up project has provided a stepping stone for vulnerable families in Mutare Urban and Chipinge District in terms of education support. The project focuses on school drop outs. A signiﬁcant number of children have dropped out of school due to various reasons ranging from economic hardships, physical abuse, sexual abuse and early marriages. These have rendered children vulnerable. The Catch-up programme informs the government on the extent of vulnerability of children and the inadequacy of BEAM funding. It also informs the planning systems of schools on who the deserving beneﬁciaries are. The project tries to provide durable solutions to life’s social and economic hardships for school drop outs and those who did not reach the Zimbabwe Education Standards, 5 subjects bench mark at Ordinary Level. Activities ranged from lesson delivery to monitoring visits by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in partnership with Simukai Child Protection Programme. The government initiative Beam cannot accommodate all vulnerable children. The out of school sites have been registered with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education. Lessons were conducted daily and a facilitator’s hours of conduct would range from 12 to 20 hours per month. With the introduction of Income Generating Activities, the intervention’s has gone a long way in alleviating poverty.

M A S In Chipinge, ﬁve Catch-up Centres were established and also ﬁve in Mutare. Below is a statistics table that shows enrolment for each Centre. Centre /school

Males

Females

Total

Chiriga Primary

Muzite Primary

Tashinga Primary

Avontuur Secondary

117

Paidamoyo Primary

152

240

261

323

584

Total

Success The project has since

recorded significant life changing stories for some learners who managed to be reintegrated into formal school and some sitting for public examination.

Of the 42 students fromMutare, 28 wrote their June examinations and passed. 19 students (13 female and 6 male) were reintegrated into the mainline education system.

Enrolement ﬁgures for centres in Mutare SAKUBVA PRIMARY

LEVEL

SIMUKAI REHAB CENTRE

Total

GRADE 6 – 7

FORM 3 – 4

112

168

108

150

TOTAL

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208

178

DANGAMVURA HIGH

Total

110

ST MARY’S HIGH M

Total

GRAND TOTAL

Total

140

191

385

576

140

219

425

644

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YEP enrolment data from the month of July 2014 to December 2014 FIRST INTAKE

SUBJECT Catering

JULY 2014

SECOND INTAKE

AUG 2014

SEPT 2014

OCT 2014

NOV 2014

DEC 2014

Total

Agriculture

Cosmetology

Carpentry & Joinery

Motor Maintenance

Total

100

Youth Education Pack (YEP)

Two hundred learners benefitted from the Youth Education Pack (YEP) in 2014, 108 male and 92 female. There were two intakes which began in July and October respectively. The primary target beneficiaries were youth residing in Dreamhouse, in Chikanga who are internally displaced people (IDP). The programme was also extended to youths residing in Ward 17 of Mutare District. The second intake of learners was selected from all areas in Mutare urban. excluding Ward 17 as it benefited on the first intake. Courses offered included Catering, Agriculture, Cosmetology, Carpentry and Joinery and Motor Maintenance. Catering and Carpentry and Joinery lessons were conducted at the Simukai Sakubva Rehabilitation Centre while Cosmetology and Motor Maintenance lessons were conducted at Mutare Vocational Training Centre. Agriculture theory and practical lessons were done at Simukai Main Office. Students were grateful of the project since the curriculum involved both theory and practice through attachment in different workplaces. Some have already secured employment while others are working towards starting their own small businesses.

Catering students during a practical in October 2014.

All students under the YEP project graduated on the 4th of December 2014. 14 students dropped out of the project due to different reasons. Common was relocation to other towns or to the rural areas. Some learners got engaged in full time jobs and it was difﬁcult for them to continue with the programme. In one isolated case a female student withdrew from the programme due to health reasons. The ﬁrst intake trainees received received the startup kits which comprised basic tools and materials during the Graduation Ceremony at Simukai Sakubva Rehabilitation Centre. The second group of trainees did not receive start-up kits due to funding constraints and this was explained to them. It is hoped that with the increased resource mobilisation efforts, future trainees will receive start up kits after they complete their training and as they prepare to venture into vocational trade. “He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

Scouting The Promise: On my honour, I promise that I do my best, to my duty to God and to my Country, to help other people and to keep the scout Law. A total of 12 scout members have been participating in scouting activities that have been hosted by Simukai and Manicaland Scouts Association during year 2014. Scouting helps in terms of teaching children good behaviour. As evidenced from the children already in the Scout group, most of the Orphans and Vulnerable Children have excelled academically. Discipline is a major factor in success.

National scout competitions in Ruwa in November 2014.

Children in the scout team from all centres, that is, Mutare, Chipinge and Rusape came together for two rehabilitation camps at Chenziwa scout camp. The two PSS camps gave the children the chance to mix and mingle with other children from other Centres. The children came back from the camps refreshed and rejuvenated. This also boosts their conﬁdence in dealing with life situations.

M A S The children celebrated the Barden Pawel’s day with the theme ‘Creating a better Zimbabwe at the Manicaland Scouts Hall Association in February 2014. The scout group received trainings on First Aid and leadership skills. As a group that is responsible for teaching other children on behaviour change they should have good leadership skills. The Simukai support scout team had the privilege of being selected to represent Manicaland at the National Scout Competitions that were held in Ruwa on the 28th to 30th of November 2014. They came eighth out of the 12 competing scout groups.

Chenziwa camping site.

Team building activities during PSS camping in Mutare.

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Construction of a two Classroom Block brings relief to pupils at Magarati Primary School

Inadequate classrooms are an everyday fact of life and somewhat a common feature in most Zimbabwean rural schools. Magarati Primary School in Saunyama chieftainship area of Nyanga District, Manicaland Province, is no exception. It is one of the worst affected schools in Mapako Ward of Saunyama, badly lacking in terms of school infrastructure.

The 164 pupils at the school were denied access to quality education in comfortable regular classrooms due to a lack of funding to construct proper classrooms. The responsible authority for this school, the Nyanga Rural District Council (NRDC) lacked the budget to fund the classroom construction. The parents and guardians of pupils at the school are mostly elderly and poor widows looking after orphans left behind by their deceased relatives. So, the pupils at Magarati Primary School were accommodated in ﬁve improvised classrooms made from pole and mud walls and a grass thatch. Sadly, three of these makeshift classrooms collapsed from the rains in January 2014, leading to crowding in the two remaining classrooms.

Through block-grant funds from Action Aid Zimbabwe , Simukai Child Protection Programme facilitated the construction of a two-classroom block at Magarati Primary School through provision of the building materials to construct an additional two-classroom blocks, together with storerooms for each. The community provided locally available building materials like bricks, concrete stones, river sand, pit sand and carried water from the nearby river as their contribution to the classroom construction. The traditional leaders, that is, village heads and headman helped mobilize, coordinate and supervise the communities on daily duty for the provision of labour under their jurisdiction. The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) through their technical wing, 3 Brigade Engineers Squadron, partnered this construction of the two-classroom block at Magarati Primary School through generously seconding six artisans which included two builders, two carpenters and two painters to this project from May to December 2014. The army artisans came in to provide technical expertise

where the community builders lacked in knowhow. The army technicians` involvement in the construction of the two-classroom block attests to the army`s cordial relations with the civilian population in delivering development projects. What makes this generous contribution by the ZNA commendable is that the army artisans` salaries during their time at this project site were not paid for by Action Aid, Simukai Child Protection Programme nor the Magarati community! It was offered for free whilst they received their regular salaries from the Zimabbwe Government. Simukai contributed food during the whole time of construction.

Currently, the community and the pupils are now learning from decent classrooms free from dirt and away from interruption. Farai, 10, one of the pupils from Magarati Primary School, is full of happiness and appreciation for the two-classroom block constructed at his school. He said;

“I am extremely thankful and so excited to learn in this new classroom before I finish primary school level education. It is now easier to concentrate and focus in class now that we are comfortable. Children from better schools around my school used to laugh at pupils from my underdeveloped school. Now that stigmatization is history.”

The temporary makeshift classroom that pupils at Magarati Primary School used to learn in before Simukai and Action Aid built the new classroom.

“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

Pupils and teachers in front of the completed two-classroom block at Magarati Primary school sponsored by Simukai and Action Aid.

The ZOE orphan empowerment programme, due to the vulnerability of some of the orphans supported, has helped greatly in terms of education support. Some children have dropped out of school due to lack of school fees and some have been in and out of school due to lack of ďŹ nancial support for their education. Thus the ZOE programme directly paid school fees to a total of 60 children in both Primary and Secondary school. With the support extended to the households, a signiďŹ cant number of children have been reintegrated into school. These children within their working groups have worked as support groups helping out each other in paying school fees and examination fees, among many other things.

M A S Chiratidzo smiling and finally back in class. She is into buying and selling of small grocery items as her individual income generating project. She uses some of the generated income to buy uniforms and stationery.

Blessed, one of the beneficiaries of the ZOE school fees payment intervention, pointing at one of Simukai posters at his school. Simukai Child Protection Programme Annual Report 2014

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INCREASING SUSTAINABLE

HOUSEHOLD FOOD AND INCOME SECURITY

The ZOE Orphan Empowerment Project (ZOE)

The project seeks to economically empower orphans and vulnerable children through giving them ﬁnancial assistance to start sustainable income generating projects so as to improve household income. The many challenges orphans and vulnerable children are facing emanate from the very high poverty levels characterising their families. Thus the objective of the ZOE project is to empower children to take charge of their own journey out of poverty. Children are assisted for three years after which they are expected to be running their projects successfully, sustainably and conﬁdently.

For 2014, ZOE witnessed the graduation of its second group of 101 children and ﬁve mentors (adult people from the community selected by the children to lead them). The lives of more than half of the graduands have been transformed for the better. Whilst the children who graduated continue to run small projects in their working groups, one group of twenty children is operating a grinding mill business in ward 28, Makoni District of Manicaland Province. The community members appreciated ZOE’s effort to economically empower vulnerable children through support to run income generating projects. Commenting about the grinding mill, the village head and the headman of Ward 28 shared that, “it is a big relief for the Chiduku community since people used to travel as far as five kilometres to the nearest grinding mill”.

improved after the seed and fertiliser assistance to the families. The children are also advised to add organic fertilisers to ensure a good supply of nutrients to the crops which ultimately improves yield. With the seed and fertiliser assistance, families are becoming increasingly food secure. Previously, before receiving support, farming was done using locally available resources that is uncertified seed harvested from the fields and organic fertilisers. The yields were much lower than what is prevailing after the assistance. Before the support with agricultural inputs and financial assistance for income generating projects, the level of poverty was high among families and children reportedly would go for the night on empty stomachs. In terms of education, their performance in school was poor as reported by local School Heads.

Janet (14), from Mabwere of Mutare Rural District in Manicaland Province, is one child who received 25kg maize seed and 50kg ammonium nitrate fertiliser towards agricultural support. As her individual Income Generating Project, she is into livestock keeping. In December 2014, she had 7 goats and 3 chickens. She sold two of the goats, each for US$32.00 and bought food for family consumption, paid her school fees and bought herself pens, books and a satchel.

Increasing Food Security It has been noted that most families in the rural areas are living far much below the poverty datum line. As agriculture is the most common activity for ensuring food security, the ZOE project provides maize certiﬁed seed and chemical fertilisers to the children in support for a better agricultural yield. Reports indicate that quality of the crops has also

Janet smiling holding her 25kg bag of seed in October 2014 at Chitora, Mutare Rural.

The ZOE project is supporting 257 households in Mutare Rural and all of them received a 25kg bag of seed and 50kg bag of Ammonium Nitrate fertiliser. 225 children from Ward 14 and 39 in Makoni District, also received the same amount of farming inputs. All “He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

children were happy expressing gratitude especially over the timeous distribution of the farming inputs before the ﬁrst rains arguing that it gives them an opportunity to prepare and start planting at the right time.

Below group photos show children after receiving farming inputs;

Value Addition In terms of livelihoods for the Action AID-funded project in Nyanga, 100 smallholder farmers received training in value-addition and preservation techniques of harvested food grains. Also, ninety community smallholder farmers went through Master Farmer Training to learn methods of conserving soil nutrients, soil moisture, water harvesting, pest control, crop harvest and storage techniques. The World Food Day was celebrated in Nyautare ward of Nyanga District by 400 participants, with an emphasis on eating healthy foods in the era of cancers and medical conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes.

M A S Income Generating Activities under the Hope HIV funded project

Flying Eagle Group in Makoni, October 2014.

Happy Hearts Group In Makoni, Rusape, after receiving fertiliser in October 2014.

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Thirty ﬁve families of orphans and vulnerable children continue to receive support as a means to economically empower them through a revolving fund of $150 per individual. The idea behind this support is economically empowering families to address issues of children’s rights to education, food, good health, protection and stability. The women’s IGAs include poultry rearing, cross border trading, selling wares and vending. Below is the life changing story of a woman whose life has transformed due to the support she got through Income Generating Activities.

E L P M “The darkest hour is towards dawn……” “I cried daily for this curse, I say it is a curse because the burden of caring for a child with this type of disability needs God’s grace. I would cry each day when my husband deserted me, just because our only child had disability and he could not take it anymore, but now I sing praises and indeed the sun has risen for me to start a new life,” said Jane Deke (44) of ChikangaMutare in Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe.

befriended herself to Christine Mazuru who also had a child with disability, though her child was in a better state to attend school compared to hers who could not do anything for himself. Her child became too heavy for the wheelchair and it got worn out and even dangerous to carry the baby and this is when she met Simukai staff on her way to the hospital. “Little did I know that this meeting would transform my life and that of my son, Takunda”, said Jane.

Pushing my child in a wheelchair through the streets and begging for small jobs to do, so that she could feed and cloth her child had become her daily routine. As the baby grew up, she could not carry him around as she searched for job opportunities. Rather, she locked up the child in a room in search of a better life. As she continued to take her child to the Rehabilitation Unit at the hospital she

After the support through an IGA she has made enough money to support her child and has gone an extra mile to mobilize three of her friends and have already started to do some savings which they look forward to liquidate by year end. Not only has she done savings but is now looking forward to starting a peanut butter making project with the support of her other three friends in the coming year, 2015.

Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA)

VSLA was introduced in Mutare and Rusape in two wards namely Gombakomba and Rukweza respectively in January 2014. Nine groups were formed consisting of 143 households of orphans and vulnerable children. Communities have embraced the programme. Major activities included VSLA sensitisation meetings, trainings, monitoring and support visits, income generation activities and documentation.

Simukai ofﬁcers went for an exchange visit in Uganda where they were trained on VSLA. They then cascaded the training to four community facilitators. Topics included group formation, development of by- laws, savings, loans, interest, record keeping, and action audit and community mobilisation. These trained facilitators were tasked to train the nine VSLA groups on the same topics. The groups started saving $1 to $5 per week per member and lending each other capital for income generation activities. They were still in their ﬁrst twelve month cycle.

“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

The nine groupsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; aggregation is shown in the chart below;

VSLA has been well received in the communities and there is overwhelming demand for it as reported by the community facilitators. This project will continue to be scaled up as a way of economically empowering communities to develop self-reliance and sustainability.

M A S VSLA Monitoring Visits in Pictures

The pictures below were taken at various VSLA group meetings during weekly VSLA meetings.

Simukai officers and other training participants observing a VSLA meeting in Gulu, Uganda, on the 1st of May 2014, as part of the VSLA training.

Tasimuka VSLA group members conducting their meeting on the 11th of November 2014 at Marware village (Above). Below: Budiriro VSLA group at Gombakomba Primary School and Simukai staff during a monitoring visit.

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“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

HEALTH PROMOTION I Can Walk Again Without Falling Tendai (not real name), 11, from Nyanga, suffered swelling of the head from when he was aged three. Because the family is poor, the mother is not working and the father is a small scale peasant farmer, they could not do much in terms of sending their son to a specialist as advised at the local clinic. Tendai`s mother, Mary, recounts her son`s journey for medical operation from when he was three years old. Tendai’s head started to swell and the medical practitioners commented that it was because of water accumulating in his head, a condition described by doctors as Hydrocephalus. As Tendai`s head grew bigger he lost his body balance such that he could hardly walk, often hurting his hands and knees. Four years ago, Kotwa Hospital donated a walking aid device to Tendai. The gesture was a

relief to the family and most importantly to Tendai as he could now walk without falling. The coming in of Simukai partnered by Action AID International Zimbabwe in the area, was an answer to a long given prayer for the family and Tendai. Simukai with funds from Action Aid availed funds for some of the medical procedures that were supposed to rectify Tendai’s problem. The scan was done and Tendai’s head was successfully operated on due to a generous donation by a team of doctors at Karanda Hospital in Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe. Tendai was operated on the 8th of September 2014 free of charge.

M A S BEFORE

Tendai (11) walking with the aid of a walking device.

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“The timely response from Simukai and Action Aid with funds for a brain scan and transport costs, helped me to be operated on and regain my body balance. Now I can walk again without the aid of a walking device that I used for the last four years”. These are the words of Tendai, 11, from Nyanga.

AFTER

After, the operation he can walk on his own and play with other children without difficulty.

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FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Human Resources

The year 2014 was a busy year for Simukai employees due to the number of projects which started half way along the year. The YEP project which commenced in July 2014 resulted in six additional staff being recruited on short contract basis as Tutors for Vocational skills training.

ICS Programme of Volunteers: Partnered by Progressio Zimbabwe

Volunteers and Student Interns remain pivotal to Simukai’s operations and as such they played a crucial role in ensuring that the organization carries out its mandate. A new Volunteer programme International Citizenship Services (ICS) commenced in January 2014 in partnership with ProgressioZimbabwe. Under the ICS programme, volunteers from the United Kingdom are partnered with local volunteers for a 10 week placement with Simukai during which they will be complementing the efforts of the organization through activities in Child Rights awareness, Peer Education and Income generating projects. The Programme has tremendously increased the organization’s visibility as more beneﬁciaries have been reached out to than before. Inspirator funded by Action Aid Zimbabwe (AAZ)

The term for the Monitoring and Evaluation Inspirator who was seconded by Action Aid Zimbabwe came to an end in May 2014.The purpose of the placement was to capacitate the institution on monitoring and evaluation and to leave behind a working monitoring and evaluation framework for the organization. At the end of the placement the Inspirator had conducted two in house trainings on Monitoring and Evaluation for staff and volunteers and developed a draft M and E framework to be adopted by the Organization.

Development Worker seconded by Progressio

Progressio Zimbabwe placed a Development Worker to capacitate the organization on Resource Mobilization and Knowledge Management from February-July 2014.The placement was quite successful as it resulted in the creation of website for organization which will aid on fundraising initiatives. The Development Worker developed a knowledge management strategy for the organization and this will ensure that the organization is better able to store valued project information for future use. A ﬁsh farming income generating project was also set up with the hope of augmenting the organization’s ﬁnancial resources. Strategic Plan Review

A Strategic Plan Review workshop was conducted from 4-6 December 2015 with the aim of reviewing the organization’s Strategic Plan which was crafted in 2012 for 2012 to 2017. The purpose of the review was to track progress made on planned activities and evaluate if the organization is still on track with its strategy. Job Evaluation

A Job Evaluation exercise was conducted through assistance from AAZ which is one of Simukai’s funding partners. AAZ seconded its Head of HR and Organizational Development to carry out the exercise. The exercise will create an equitable compensation structure through appropriate job classification. It will also improve job design and aids in understanding training needs for individual jobs. Finance The department seeks to provide financial and administrative services for the organisation safeguarding all resources and maintaining accurate and up to date accounting records. The department also assists in preparation, presentation and interpretation of budgets and uptake of funds. The year 2014 was characterised by dwindling financial

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resources against rising needs in terms of programming. The percentage of administration funds compared to programming funds continued to go down, with some donors reluctant to cover administration costs. Nonetheless, Simukai managed to maintain its traditional donors such as HOPE HIV, Oak Foundation, Action Aid International Zimbabwe and ZOE Ministry. In terms of funds for salaries, this has remained a very big challenge as the organisation has failed to secure funding to adequately compensate its employees. Vehicles The ageing fleet of vehicles has become one of the biggest expenses for the organisation. However, the organisation received a donation of a second hand Mitsubishi Colt double cab from Plan International Zimbabwe and Toyota Prado from the Norwegian Refugee Council. Thanks go to Plan International and Norwegian Refugee Council for the generous donations. These two vehicles have helped to ease the problem of transport for programme Officers. There is still need for two more vehicles, one vehicle for Chipinge sub-office and one for Rusape sub-office for both project implementation and monitoring and evaluation purposes. Funding partners and level of funding

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“He lifted me from a slimy pit ……. And set my feet upon a rock” (Psalms 40 v 1-3)

NETWORKING PARTNERS •

Youth Alive Zimbabwe

•

Family Support Trust

•

Zimbabwe Services,

Prisons

and

•

Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council

•

Local Authorities

•

Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenization and Empowerment

•

Ministry of Health and Child Care

•

Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education

•

Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development

•

Media Houses

•

Traditional Leaders

•

Hope HIV

•

Action Aid International Zimbabwe

•

Oak Foundation

Correctional

•

Teen HIV Prevention Programme,

•

American Corner

•

USAP Cares Programme.

•

Afric Aid

•

National AIDS Council

•

Family AIDS Caring Trust

•

Windows of Hope

•

National Association of Non-Governmental Organisation

•

National AIDS Council

•

World Education Incorporation

•

Child line

•

ZOE Orphan Empowerment Programme

•

Plan International Zimbabwe

•

Business Community

•

Agricultural Research Technological Extension

•

Churches

•

Zimbabwe AIDS Network

•

Scripture Union

•

Teen HIV Prevention Programme

•

Nyanga Rural District Council

•

Youth Centre

•

Rusape Town Council

•

Population Services International Zimbabwe

•

Makoni Rural District Council

•

Chipinge Town Council

•

School of Psychological Services

•

Chipinge Rural District Council

•

Victim Friendly Unit

•

Mutare Rural District Council

•

Victim Friendly Initiative Courts

•

Municipality of Mutare

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Simukai Child Protection Programme No. 9/11 Aerodrome Road, Yeovil P.O. Box 2888 Mutare, Zimbabwe Mutare Office: +263 (20) 65530/62311 Chipinge Office: +263 (227) 5670 Rusape Office: +263 (25) 2334 Email: simukai2009@gmail.com director@simukaicpp.org simukaichpingeoffice@gmail.com simukairusapeoffice@gmail.com