Unverified non-profit organisation

Lily of Valleys Home of Hope is a registered Private Voluntary Organization (PVO8/21) under the laws of Zimbabwe.

Our Vision is:

Empowered Adolescent Girls and Young Women to pursue their life goals free from Gender Based Violence and Poverty

And our Mission is:
To create poverty-free and abuse-free communities through socio-economic empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women and transformation of social and gender norms.

The vision was developed from the visionary’s background experience. She grew up in a rural area at a time the girl child was hindered from pursuing her academic dreams due to financial constraints, social norms and being given into early child marriages. She managed to escape it because one couple took it upon themselves sponsor her education.

She then developed a desire to also charter a way for the underprivileged young women and adolescent girls through philanthropic ventures on economic empowerment, psycho-social support and education access.

The target age group is 10 – 25 years and the target area currently is Mashonaland East Province, Marondera Rural District Wards 2, 15 and 16. In total we work with 83 villages, 4,919 households and 16 schools.

The projects that we have worked on:
1. Current Project: a Knowledge Hub which will provide access to students in school and an opportunity to pursue with education to those that had dropped out of school.
2. We also have a Menstrual Health campaign named “Mwanasikana Wedu” ( “Our Girl Child “) where we donate an annual supply of sanitary pads to vulnerable girls in school in the 3 wards and other women’s wellness programs: Cancer Awareness and HIV/AIDS
3. Economic empowerment programs for young women which involve training and startups support.
4. School fees and University Tuition for underprivileged girls from 10 years to 22 years. Boys with extreme situations will be considered.
5. Outreach Programs for adolescent girls and boys.
6. launch a virtual knowledge hubs in remote areas

What has been achieved so far:
- sanitary campaign and donation of pads
- sponsored children to school with School fees and stationery
- donated ICT equipment- TV and DVD player for lessons that need it
- built 8 toilets for Materera Secondary school
- sandals making workshop for women
- blankets donation on Mother’s day to mothers that we work with
- acquired a 10 hectare land to build a place of safety with a boarding high school.
- acquired land to setup a Adolescent Girls and Women Empowerment Centre for Lily Of Valleys Home Of Hope
- Drilled a borehole
- HIV and Cancer Awareness
- Young mothers back to school program
- Festive season grocery hampers for vulnerable families in communities that we are assisting
- Ground breaking for building a Knowledge Hub at Materera Sec School for Ward 15 Community

What we need to achieve in 5 years:

1. Cover as much as we can on Fees, Uniform and Stationery provision for underprivileged girl children in schools in Mashonaland East Province and Harare Metropolitan who do not have parents and have no support from other organizations

2. Building a more Knowledge Hubs and virtual Hubs Centres so that learning material is accessible to all students and dropouts in rural areas. Our vision is to have secret girl child and young woman empowered.

3. Setup a Pad making centre to manufacture both reusable and disposable pads for our girls

4. Hold Women’s wellness workshops 3 times a year

5. Do income generating projects from our Centre that will fund some of our projects and day to day running as well as provide start up our young women to do their own projects

6. Provide good sanitation and educational resources in schools.

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