Thanks to your support, HAZ has made it to the shortlist of nominees for the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards “COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR” award. What this means for us is of-course that we now have the opportunity to win this prestigious award. More importantly however, this is an opportunity for HAZ to win widespread recognition [...]

We would appreciate your nomination for the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards “COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR” award. To nominate HIV/AIDS|ZIMBABWE CHARITY INC (HAZ), please go to http://www.mafaro.com/awards/index.php before Friday February 14th, 2011 and submit your nomination.

As you enter an African market place, you must get to know the people that make it a market in the first place. They are not as extravagant as you would envision seeing in a Western marketplace. Neither are their clients. Although they do go through inconceivable pains to make their products attractive, they know that at the end of the day, the point is not to sell their wares, but to sustain their families.

We wish you all a happy and safe holiday season.  We thank all of you that have supported us through this year. May you all be blessed just as you have been a blessing to us. From HAZ & FOPD

Make your gifts count for twice the giving this season.  By making your purchases from ZARMarketplace, you still get high quality products at the same great prices, and also support our projects without having to make any additional donations. All the money raised through ZARMarketplace from our own product lines and products by our affiliates [...]

Zimbabwe’s Shona art is most visibly defined by the contemporary sculptures, hand-carved from natural stone. Shona sculptors believe everything has a spirit, and this belief extends to plants, animals and rocks. Sculptors use simple handmade tools to “release the spirit trapped within” the different varieties of stones used. The most often-used stone is serpentine, a hard igneous rock prevalent across parts of Zimbabwe. There is broad range of serpentine ores and combinations available in Zimbabwe, offering a broad catalog of color variations and textures from which the artist can create stone sculptures as a way of expressing themselves. Women are often a significant source of inspiration for the art, resulting in art pieces with themes such as: “mother and child”, “dancing girl” and “expectant mother”.