LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship Program

LifeNets Zimbabwe home

LifeNets has been working with people in Zimbabwe since 2001 and has not only helped there but other Zimbabweans outside the country. We have appreciated our relationship with Joseph Dits, reporter covering urban and social issues for the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune.

There was a need for Godfrey, a former orphan in Zimbabwe for a laptop, scientific calculator and digital camera, so he could attend a mining school in Zimbabwe and do his coursework. 

LifeNets was able to help him with the laptop. It was successfully delivered by Jayne During from Indianapolis who travels frequently to and helps immeasurably in Zimbabwe in February. Jayne has sent a number of containers of aid over the past few years to Zimbabwe. Joe wrote a wonderful article The Art of Making a Difference for the Rotarian Magazine last year about Jayne.

The student, Godfrey, had come up through Matthew Rusike Children's Home. Joe has worked at the Matthew Rusike home and my wife Bev and I visited it on October 8, 2001.  Joe wrote about the Matthew Rusike Home here on our site.

I ‘m really sorry, that I took a long time to reply you and to inform you with my progress so far. This is due to a number of issues.

1)  Where I’m recently staying, there is network problems and I don’t have access to the internet and

2)  I have been running around a lot, trying to get the right mine for my attachment program. I have been to Isabella Mine and Buchwa Iron Mining Company (BIMCO) in Kwekwe. They were both opencast mines although they are relatively big mines. Right now I ‘m attached to Pakamiso Mine a tribute to Zimbabwe Mining And Smelting Company ( ZIMASCO). It is a chrome mining company and it practices underground mining and has several adit mines around the area. It is situated in Mutorashanga  about 110km north-west of Harare along the mineral rich belt known as The Great Dyke  that stretches from the north- east through the center to the south-west of Zimbabwe. Chrome mining in Zimbabwe is labor intensive and small scale in nature when compared to the Sinosteel Joint Venture operations in South Africa. Sinosteel has 90% of 

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