Zimbabwe Project

Angela Yablonski and Tina Sorgen came to our April 16^th meeting and told us about the Zimbabwe Project.  This started with Angela going on a Mission Trip to Africa in 2007 where she saw the families were doing the best they could with what they had, and they had very little.  Children were going to school in buildings that were close to falling down and trying to learn with parts of books.  She discovered that this area had a very high number of orphans and in many cases kids were being cared for by other slightly older kids.  She has returned yearly with other volunteers to help teach them how to develop basic projects. One example was a sewing project that resulted in making school uniforms for the area and the return from that was enough to buy better sewing machines. Tina was a volunteer last year and she helped teach some of the older boys how to build some basic wood structures.  She said they caught on really fast and were eager to ‘build more things’.  There is much more information about this at www.zimbabweproject.com    (The photo, left to right, shows Rotarian Morgan Roney with Angela and Tina)