Introduction
The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the [British] South Africa Company in 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded more complete voting rights for the black African majority in the country (then called Rhodesia). UN sanctions and a guerrilla uprising finally led to free elections in 1979 and independence (as Zimbabwe) in 1980. In April 2005, Harare embarked on Operation Restore Order, ostensibly an urban rationalization program, which resulted in the destruction of the homes or businesses of 700,000 mostly poor, according to UN estimates.

Location and some background information:
Hope for Africa Mission sites are located in two different sections of Chitugwisa town 30 km south of Harare. One is located a village called Shurugwi about 25 km Southeast of Gweru.

Seke unit J: In Seke which is one of the section in Chitungwisa we have bought a mission house which is being used by Pastor Thafumaneyi Jack who is one of our missionary, and he is coordinates three projects from there.

• Football project: He has gathered a group of about 30 young men and started a soccer team, aimed at reaching out to these young men and their fans by the gospel and also teaches them life skills including teaching them about HIV/Aids which is threatening to wipe out this generation.
• Preschool: An extension was built on the existing mission building, built as a hall to accommodate children including some orphans for pre-primary education. When the government came with their ‘so-called cleanup’ program and demolished the hall we had about 40 children. The whole project is on hold because of the accommodation problem at the moment.
• Farming & Peanut butter project: Jack and his team started a peanut butter project to sustain other projects. At first they bought peanuts, ground and bottled the butter for the local market. Since then they have now started to plant their own peanuts so as to bring more value to the process of making peanut butter and giving employment to more people.

• Tambourine making project: Pastor Samuel Gunguta has also started an ‘income generating’ project of tambourine making in this centre, to create job opportunities and generate some funds to sustain their ministry. Samuel has produced tambourines for both the local market and also supplying his tambourines for the wider African market. We are planning to buy more machinery for this project so as to improve productivity and hopefully expand their market so that they will be able to employ even more unemployed members of their community.
• Church planting centre: Three churches have been planted in Zimbabwe and all our work in the northern Mozambique and Malawi is coordinated from this centre as this is our regional headquarters.
• Home base care program: Samuel with the help of local Christians in this locality started a ‘home base care program’, focusing on those who are affected and infected by HIV/Aids.
• Mobile Clinic: This program has reached many people in this community. Samuel is using one of the Landrovers supplied by the medical doctors from the UK, which is being used as a mobile clinic and ambulance to ferry those who are critical ill to hospitals.
• Zengeza: There is yet no structure but some church and HIV home base care program activities are taking place from Seke
• Shurugwi project: A farming project has started in this community, and a church has been planted; there is not yet a formal church building but the site and the faming land has been granted by the government.
  • The farming is underway to help the local community with food supply and three cows were bought by the mission for this mission station; being used to cultivate the fields and for providing milk.

• Planning to build a bigger ‘multipurpose worship centre’ and a store that will store our relief food and material.
• Expand the agricultural project started by Jack so that we can use our produce to feed the hungry it will also be used to teach the local communities good practices of farming which will help improve their food security.
• Mobile Clinic: We are planning to expand this project so that it can help even more people who are infected and affected by HIV/Aids
• Shurugwi project: We are planning to expand the agricultural activities in this area, and also to build a mission station so that they will have a ‘worship centre’ for their church members and will also combine as a community centre

• Number of people being supported and being helped: 1200 plus
• Numbers who moved for further development: 250 approx.
• Number of churches planted and some small churches who benefited by becoming part of the Hope for Africa network: 3 planted, and many more in North Mozambique and Malawi supported by these centers
• Number of people who have confessed Christ as savior: 750 approx. known to us