Madagascar
Money for Madagascar
Money for Madagascar (MfM)’s approach is to support Malagasy people in finding their own solutions and changing their own communities. We make grants to a network of partners who contribute the ideas and the manpower. MfM provides the funds and the oversight. Over nearly 30 years we have been responsible for planting thousands of trees, building over 100 school classrooms, setting up school vegetable gardens and environmental education schemes, supporting prisoners, helping vulnerable women and girls with vocational training, feeding and educating destitute children, constructing wells and latrines and supporting numerous small income-generating schemes. We started with the help of Swansea Quakers and four members of our present management committee are Friends.
Website: www.moneyformadagascar.org
Blog: http://moneyformadagascar.blogspot.com
E-mail: Money for Madagascar
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Zambia
Friends of Monze
Friends of Monze is a concern of Bridgend Quaker Meeting. We work closely with partners based in the Monze District of Zambia to help disadvantaged and orphaned children and communities who suffer from low educational attainment and poor nutrition.
Our aims are:-
- To improve education we built 19 schools, equipping them with books, desks, laptops, sports equipment and houses for the teachers.
- To improve health we drilled or repaired 29 bore holes supplying clean drinking water by hand and solar powered pumps. We teach hygiene. We carry out a program of school eye tests, treating many children for eye infections.
- To improve nutrition and combat climate change, we established 17 school gardens teaching schools and communities to grow drought resistant crops using natural fertiliser and water harvesting. We teach prisoners to grow and care for trees, so they have this life skill when leaving prison.
- To keep girls in school we provide menstrual hygiene training and human rights training.
Friends of Monze is a Quaker Recognised Body
Contact Details:
updated February 2025
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Zimbabwe
Dabane Water Workshops
Dabane Water Workshops of Zimbabwe were founded in 1991 to provide clean water supplies and food security to the dry rural areas of South Western Zimbabwe. Dabane has focussed on finding local solutions, such as the development of simple hand pumps to draw water from beneath dry river beds. One of their most important principles is working with communities to manage their own solutions, with appropriate back-up. More recently Dabane has grown to encompass other desperate areas of need, and their expertise is well respected not only in Zimbabwe but throughout many African countries. Mid-Somerset Area Meeting assists through the Dabane Support Fund.
Dabane Water Workshops is a Quaker Recognised Body of Britain Yearly Meeting
Email: Veronica Watts
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Zimbabwe
Peace Works Zimbabwe
Peace Works Zimbabwe supports two peace building projects in Zimbabwe: Alternatives to Violence (AVP) training and Peace Clubs in Schools. Both of these projects are managed locally by Alternatives to Violence Zimbabwe (AVPZ), based in Bulawayo Friends Meeting House.
The Alternatives to Violence training is delivered free of charge to a wide variety of community groups, including NGO and church leaders, prison staff, women at risk of abuse, men’s groups, young people, and orphans and vulnerable young people. 
The Peace Clubs in schools projects, trains teachers in mediation and AVP techniques whilst also encouraging them to run voluntary Peace Clubs in their schools for students. Students become ambassadors for peace and justice in their schools, including offering peer mediation and conflict resolution training. The presence of a Peace Club in the school has been shown to have a marked impact on the ethos of many schools.
These projects are operating at a key time in the development of Zimbabwe as it emerges from its violent past. Official National Priorities include upholding ‘National Unity, Peace and Reconciliation as the building blocks for achieving equitable and sustainable national development’. The Ministry of Education includes conflict resolution in the primary and secondary curriculum, but as yet provides no further guidance. Corporal punishment in schools has been made illegal and new forms of discipline are needed.
PWZ has been involved in the development of a manual for Zimbabwe secondary schools and it is hoped that a primary version will follow.
AVPZ is now well established in the Bulawayo area, and in 2022 a new branch was set up in Harare (picture shows the first graduates). Other regional hubs will follow.
Peace Works Zimbabwe is an adopted concern of Milton Keynes Local Meeting and Luton and Leighton Area Meeting and is in the process of applying to become a Quaker Recognised Body.
Contact details:
Quaker Africa Interest Group (QAIG) 
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