Two young men who live worlds apart are working together to regenerate communities in Zimbabwe.
Bastian Mögele of ZimRelief and Joseph Rose from Shingirirai Trust head for the finish line during a charity run for Africa in June 2007.
Bastian Mögele, 28, lives in the small town of Kaufbeuren, deep in southern Germany and works in the family’s commercial property firm. ‘The family also owns a small brewery,’ says Bastian, ‘which is typically Bavarian!’
However, foreign travel is in the family’s blood, and Bastian has backpacked his way around Europe; more adventurously, he’s travelled and studied in Indonesia and Uruguay. ‘I think my travels connected me to the issues of the developing world in a very personal way,’ he says.
Posted by arpi on October 18th, 2009
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
There’s an exciting transformation taking place in Zimbabwe right now. It’s grassroots-inspired and led, and from today, you too can get involved.
In communities around the capital, Harare, the courageous women of the Shingirirai Trust are changing lives – their own first and then the lives of others. Against the bleak backdrop of the HIV/AIDS crisis, against the daily challenges of economic and political turmoil, these women – many of them HIV-positive themselves – are coming together to learn, teach and earn their way to a new life of hope and dignity.
Hostal Peña Parda in La Herradura, Costa Tropical, Southern Spain, glistened, glittered and groaned with merrymakers on 18 June as over one hundred very warm people got together for the Shingirirai Trust Fundraising Charity Gala.
We’d all come together to raise money – €1400 of it – for the Trust’s Skills Development program. Some of the money is going into training workshops for teenage girls, one of the most vulnerable groups the Trust is working with. (Girls with earning skills are less likely to be forced into prostitution or early pregnancy).
Today is a great day – Michelle and David are helping us to open a window on the world! We will be able to bring each woman’s story of courage and perseverance to people far from Zimbabwe.
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Shingirirai – Perseverance, Courage, Empowerment
Above all love in action
Thirty women, one man, hundreds of kids
Dynamically interwoven
Moving into the future
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