New chicken shed built
Three groups of trainees teamed up to build a new addition to the broiler chicken production scheme. Agriculture students, carpentry students and building students all put their skills to work to complete a third chicken house for the broiler production scheme. Agricultural students tend the chickens day to day, supplying them with food and water and [...]
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New Mural for the Directors Office
New Zealand volunteers Amanda Armstrong and Malcolm Rutherford came for three weeks to help out with some IT work in the offices, and to provide a little bit of basic IT skills for some of the trainees. During their stay they completed a mural based on the google-earth view of Hlekweni and the surrounding countryside. [...]
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Building Trainees construct new entrance way
The building and construction trainees tried out their skills in stone-wall building. They have constructed a 1.8 metre tall entranceway into Valindre farm/Hlekweni training centre. Building tutor, Mr. Johnson B Sibanda, aims to give trainees as wide a range of experience as possible working with different materials. Pictured here the building and construction trainees [...]
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Hlekweni Film 2012
Welcome to our new video – a 5 minute film shot in one day at Hlekweni, with a soundtrack by our trainees. Enjoy!
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Hlekweni Graduate opens her own Pre-school
Connie Nkiwane (pictured in red) graduated in Early Childhood Development from Hlekweni in December 2011. Since then she has been busy with her daughter, Cleo, preparing to open her own pre school in Bulawayo. ‘The Discovery Centre’ opened in January 2011 and she has a growing number of children coming from 7am until 4pm each [...]
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Bumper crop of tomatoes
Mid February brought Hlekweni its first crop from the drip irrigation scheme. The harvested tomatoes provide extra food for the kitchen and are also being put on sale locally. This marks the beginning of income generation from the drip irrigation fields.
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Farewell for now
This term’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) trainees leave Hlekweni at the weekend to go on attachment in Bulawyo schools. There are 27 trainees, the most ECD trainer, Mrs Ndlovu, has ever had on roll. Hlekweni will be a lot quieter without them! A ‘jive night’ was organised for them by the other trainees as a [...]
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Computer training at Hlekweni
Quaker volunteer, Eric Sheppard from Ireland, has been busy since his arrival teaching staff and trainees computer skills. He is pictured here with three agriculture trainees – Robin Nyoni, Bhekimpilo Mlilo and Phikisani Dube. For many trainees it is the first chance to learn some computer skills whilst others have been able to develop the [...]
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Meet our New Director
Our new Hlekweni Director has been appointed, and will be taking over from Craig Barnett at the end of this month. His name is Innocent Moyo, and he is the former Director of ORAP – a large rural community development organisation in Matabeleland. Innocent is a very experienced manager, teacher and agriculturalist, bringing a wealth [...]
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Alternatives to Violence Training
All of our 59 new trainees this term have now completed a full two-day ‘Alternatives to Violence Project’ (AVP) workshop, led by our trainers Lungisani Sibanda and Shingi Madaka. The training helps participants to examine their own experience of violence, and to learn and practice new and constructive approaches to resolving conflict. For young Zimbabweans, [...]
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