Welcome to Farai – Makomborero Zimbabwe’s Student Relations Officer

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Makomborero Zimbabwe was founded in 2011 and has been growing ever since! Our dream is to make education accessible to young people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and one of our aims is to keep improving in what we do. With that in mind, we are so excited to be introducing a new post and […]

MEET THE 2023 MUTSIDZIRA GRANT WINNERS

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Makomborero Zimbabwe is excited to finally introduce our Mutsidzira project winners for 2023! Mutsidzira is an annual community grant that invites past Makomborero students to apply for financial help in order to fund their proposed projects. The main aim of this grant is to invest into and revive communities. Applicants choose a community that they […]

Term 3 Update – December 2023

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The End of a Busy Year We have come to the end of our busiest term of the year and the end of 2023! Our boarding houses, our projects and partner schools have all been a hive of activity and left us with so much to be grateful for! We have had another term of […]

Welcome 2023 girl child mentees!

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We are so excited to have started our 2023 girl child mentorship programme with 30 girls from 3 different schools in Harare, Zimbabwe. I know we say this every year but we really do have a lovely group of girls! Most of the girls pleasantly surprised us with their bubbly characters and eagerness to learn […]

Meet Nyasha and Shawn – Our Mobile Lab Science Teachers

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Our Mobile Science Lab was started in 2017.  The heart behind the lab was to give lab time to O-Level students who are not able to put their theoretical knowledge into practice due to lack of resources at their schools. The Lab is a 20-foot shipping container, converted into a fully kitted out laboratory.  Winston […]

A Round Up Of 2022

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2022 has ended on a high note despite some challenges and the sadness of saying goodbye to our Upper Sixth students. We were able to hold our usual end of year events such as Girl Child Lunch, Testing Process, Graduation and Christmas Party without the re-jigging and the dodging of curve balls that we had […]

MAKOMBORERO 6th ANNUAL SUPPORTERS EVENT 2022 – THE LEGACY CONTINUES

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Though Covid-19 changed so much of how we do things at Makomborero, it served a great purpose in showing us what we truly value and the traditions we aim to uphold regardless of what is thrown at us. One such tradition is the Annual Supporters Event held by our UK trustees. Our Annual Supporters Event […]

Given to give – a Girl Mentorship Programme update

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The second school term in Zimbabwe starts just at the end of the autumn season and takes us through the winter months and what a winter it was! Some mornings we genuinely did not expect to have any mentees turn up at all but we are so proud to report that attendance was hardly an […]

Term 2 Update – August 2022

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To our valued supporters of Makomborero Zimbabwe. We are very grateful for your contribution to Makomborero and we look forward to a continued partnership. This report is an update from our team in Harare on the success of the 2nd term 2022.     Changing seasons The start of this second term continued to signal a welcome change from strict […]