Home Visits

We do a lot of home visits as part of the child carers project, requiring us to go out to the rural areas to various homesteads and talk to the children's parents, grandparents, or guardians.  Some of the residents receive us with open arms, some are skeptical of our involvement, and others have never heard of Environment Africa or child carers before.  As a special side note, there was another volunteer here for two weeks in February! Her name is Janna, and she is a nurse from Wales, but working in London.  It was AMAZING to have another volunteer to work with in the same program, and we had a lot of fun together.  Without further ado, some pictures of the home visits in February.

Cheidza, an 18 year-old orphan who asked to be a part of the Child Carers project.  Her cousin, Caroline, was the reason for our visit.  They both live with their ill grandfather. 

 

 

 

a beautiful homestead on a perfect Zimbabwean day

Janna and Lorren (lower right in the blue t-shirt) with the family of one of the child carers

During these home visits in Nemananga ward, I also got some good photos of a borehole water pump and of a rural woman carrying firewood on her head back to her homestead.  Traditionally, women do all the heavy lifting because the men are supposed to walk beside them with a spear, protecting them.  While this is not the case in modern times, the women in the rural areas still do all the water and firewood fetching (traditional female roles) and they are all masters of grace and balance. 

borehole water pump. they are fenced in so that cattle and elephants do not destroy or bend the pipes

Daniel and Lorren, waiting for me to pump them water.  The excess water flows into a trough for livestock to drink from

A woman we asked for directions, she didn't even need to hold the massive amount of wood on her head to talk to us or walk down the road