OUR CURRENT PROJECT

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Zimbabwe Widow’s Three Strands Cord Project

 

The Three Strands Cord Project engages young widows with dependent children in life empowering self-reliant chicken breeding, raising, and selling programs to obtain funds for shelter, food, clothing, school fees, and school supplies for their children.  Each widow also plants a garden to raise vegetables. 

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• We provide 8 food items to 40 Widows and 23 orphans (flour, sugar, rice, dried fish, cooking oil, tea, soap, and clothing.

• Orphans are cared for in a home setting so they can get the nurturing and other emotional support that they need.

• We have 40 widows and initially supply 6 chickens to each widow

• We anticipate doubling and tripling the program when we get enough funding

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               Expenses for the program

• Monthly supplemental food for widows and orphans

• School fees and school supplies

• Chickens for the young widows with dependent children

• Total financial support for the elderly widows

• Chicken Food

• Chicken Coops

• Training to care for the chickens for consumption

• Marketing training to sell the surplus chickens and eggs

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THE CHALLENGE

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In Zimbabwe’s recent history, men traditionally owned all family property, and when women were widowed, they were often “inherited” as wives by male relatives of their deceased spouse. In Zimbabwe today, wife inheritance is no longer the norm and property can be held by both men and women.

 

Widows in Zimbabwe are routinely evicted from their homes and land, and their property is stolen by in-laws when their husbands die. These are the vulnerabilities and abuses that predominantly older women in Zimbabwe face. They are experienced by younger widows too.

 

Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, many young women have been left widows with several orphans to feed with no or meager resources to survive on with no support from their immediate family.

 

• Widows are left helpless, and orphans drop out of school.

• Older women (grandparents) are left with many orphans (grandchildren) to feed single-handed. This has affected the moral, social, academic, economic, and physical wellbeing of the survivors causing bitter suffering.

• Depression, helplessness, and poverty are the result of this situation which is growing at an alarming rate.

• There are widows in their late 90s staying alone with nobody to help them except God and the substances we provide.

• There is generational poverty, neglect, and abandonment of orphans and widows.

​THE SELF-RELIANT PROJECT

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We provide funds to buy chickens for widows.

We expect some chicken in every project to be given to another widow to keep the benefits spreading.

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The chicken is a wonderfully versatile fowl with many economic advantages:

it provides food and eggs for the widows and their children.

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They provide eggs and protein for nourishment. And since a good hen can lay up to 200 eggs a year, widows boost their income through sales of extra eggs and the chicken’s offspring

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Widows learn to keep business records, develop entrepreneurial skills, and increase their self-confidence. Widows can provide a better standard of living for themselves and their children. They can train their children to do the same thereby making a long-term impact on society.

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OUR CALLING HISTORY

Each year we went to the mission field. First, we lead Medical Teams to go with our church's Evangelizing Team to the Dominican Republic. At that time we were a part of the church's Mission Team. The mobile medical clinics were in churches, a shady spot in the villages of Susua, in a church near the Dominican Republic-Haiti border in Santiago, or on a frequently traveled road. 

 

Next, we accompanied a large Medical Team to Ethiopia for 6 years. Sometimes 13,000 people visited the temporary clinic. Medical, cataract surgery, and dental were provided. A prayer tent for evangelizing saw many give their life to God through Jesus. Recently we ministered to Internally Displaced Orphaned Children in Nigeria. The children sang songs of worship and were provided with hygiene teaching, medical supplies, and food. And now we are in Zimbabwe. God directs us where to work and we follow Him

 

As in Matthew 28:18-20, 18 Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”

 

DISCIPLE MAKING

At Healing 4 All Nations Ministry we’re passionate about helping those who need medical care and making Disciples that allow God's Word and His commandments to manifest in Zimbabwe. And it’s all thanks to the support and feedback from supporters like you!