Posts Tagged ‘Zimbabwe’

Remembering Those Left Behind – World AIDS Day

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

This World AIDS Day, UnitingWorld joins with people and organisations all over the world in remembering sufferers, working for inclusion and caring for those left behind. The adult HIV prevalence rate may be declining in Zimbabwe, but in 2010 13.6% of the adult population were infected with HIV. And of course it’s not just sufferers [...] 

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Water, Women and a Wonderful Project #7 #EIC

Friday, November 25th, 2011

UnitingWorld’s Rob Floyd reflects in blog #7 in our EIC series on how access to water transforms the lives of girls and women around the world. One of the favourite photos that I have taken during my time working for UnitingWorld Relief and Development shows four women walking in a line back to their village [...] 

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Tanks and Toilets in Zimbabwe #5 #EIC

Friday, November 18th, 2011

In July this year, Communications Assistant Steph Dalton travelled  through the heat and dust of Zimbabwe to check out sanitation  and water projects we’re developing with our partner church in Muzurabani.  This is Blog#5 in our ‘Everything in Common‘ series, taking you behind the scenes to meet the people who’ll benefit from your Christmas gifts.  Driving [...] 

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Out of our comfort zone

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Guest blogger Andrew Thornley offers the third of a series of reflections on his congregations, and his own, experience throughout Lent Event 2011. I managed to fast this last week. Because I had forgotten the previous week, I had to make a conscious decision to remember this time. I do feel better for it, but [...] 

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No.18 – Lent Event as learning to welcome others into our lives

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

with guest blogger Rob Floyd (Associate Director, Relief and Development) on reason no. 18 of 21 to register now for Lent Event 2011. Check out the Act Reflect Connect blog for the full series. In the course of supporting our overseas partners and monitoring projects I travelled last last year to Zimbabwe where we have some rejuvenated projects taking place in the area of water harvesting. In... Read More »