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Priscilla inspects her drought-affected fields of millet next to her home in Hwange district, north-western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia

Priscilla’s Story: Empowering Change in Zimbabwe

Thanks to your support people like Priscilla have opportunities for a better future.

Priscilla, her husband Charles and their grandsons Obry (8) and Jayden (7) outside their home in Hwange district, north western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia
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Priscilla, her husband Charles and their grandsons Obry (8) and Jayden (7) outside their home in Hwange district, north western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia

Living in Zimbabwe’s Hwange district, Priscilla and her family faced constant food shortages due to droughts that killed their crops. She joined the Zimbabwe Integrated Community Development Program, implemented by Caritas Hwange and funded by Caritas Australia. Through this program, she learned conservation farming techniques to grow drought-resistant crops.

In her first year, she achieved a bumper harvest and used the proceeds to start poultry farming, providing a stable income for her family.

Along with your generous support, this program is also supported by the Australian Government, through Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). 

Your Impact

Priscilla is just one story of a broader impact that your support has had on communities, including

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Priscilla holds millet from this year’s harvest in her storeroom at her home in Hwange district, north western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia

Training Communities

Teaching conservation farming techniques 

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Priscilla's husband Charles fills water storage drums at their home in Hwange district, north western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia

Clean Water Access

Rehabilitating boreholes and community dams.

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Priscilla’s grandchildren, Obry (8) and Jayden (7), read their school books at their home in Hwange district, north western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia

Educational Support

Providing school supplies for children

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Priscilla feeds her broiler chickens at her home in Hwange district, north western Zimbabwe. Photo: Richard Wainwright/Caritas Australia

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