In addition to the fund-raising for school activities we also collect funds for other purposes that support the education of our children. Our special funds are:

The Food Fund
The Medical Fund
The Building Fund
The Recreation Fund
The General Fund (for administrative costs)

It is possible to support our activities by, for example, buying a cow, thereby providing our children with the essential protein needed for their growing bodies for an entire month, or you can supply the means to take 100 children to the cinema.  Listed below are the various special funds and the suggested alternatives available to support our work.

The cost of a meal for one child is € 0.30. As we supply as many as 70,000 meals a year, our annual food budget comes to about € 21,000. In addition to the food cost this includes the salaries, warehousing and transport costs as well as the purchase of cutlery and fire wood as the meals are all prepared on an open fire. In 2006 we had eight cows slaughtered, at the cost of about € 400 each, to provide the meat we needed.

• Buy a cow! Weight 320 kg (meat 200 kg). It enables our children to receive an important protein rich supplement to their daily meal for a month. The price is €.400 euros. Code your payment with the word “Cow”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.
• Buy fruit for our children (bananas and oranges)! The price for a moth's supply is € 60. Code your payment with the word “Fruit”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.
• Buy cooking oil! Cooking oil is a key ingredient of Zimbabwean cooking and a month's supply costs € 30. Code your payment with the words “Cooking oil”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.

Buy wood for our cooking pots! A month's supply of wood to fuel the cooking pots supplying the children with their meals costs € 50. Code your payment with the word “Wood”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.

The need for medical care differs from child to child, and the unpredictable requirements for treatment do not always allow us to contact the sponsor. Based on earlier experience we estimate in 2007 to need a Medical Fund of € 4,800. We already receive € 200 a month contribution to the Medical Fund from the Harare e.V. in Germany.

• Buy multivitamins and mineral supplements for a month for all the children! A month's supply costs € 60. Code your payment with the word “Vitamins”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.

Buy haircuts for a month for all the children! A month's scissor action costs € 60. Code your payment with the word “Haircuts”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.

Our objective is to collect one million euro (€1,000,000) in order to build an activity centre for our orphans.

If you are interested in more details of this project and a break-down of this million-dollar budget click here. The estimate is based on a cost analysis made using Zimbabwean calculations and has been negotiated down and discounted wherever possible.

SHELTER HOME FUND

The residents of the new Shelter Home were able to move into the newly renovated building in the centre of Dzivaresekwa on 1 June 2007. The house is located only 100 metres from the site where the Dzikwa Activity Centre is to be built.  It has seven rooms and a kitchen building and in addition to our own children, houses a policeman and his family as well as the matron who is in charge of the children.

Renovation of the new Shelter Home began on 2 May 2007 and included finishing the incomplete ceilings and two new toilets. The doors were repaired and the walls painted. The total cost of the renovation came to € 12,000.

The Shelter Home provides accommodation for children whose home conditions are inadequate for a school child. The numbers of children in residence varies between 15 and 30 at any one time.

The maintenance costs for the Shelter Home break down as follows:

• Renovation (one-off payment)                                 € 12,000
• Rent                                                                    €   200 / month
• Matron's pay                                                        €   120 / month
• Breakfast and supper for the children (average)        €   400 / month

Bills for electricity and water, property tax                          €    80 / month

We are going to spend about € 1,200 annually on sports events, visits to the cinema and wild game parks etc. for our children.

• Pay for a trip to the cinema for 160 children, where we buy the tickets for the entire cinema. The children all get an ice cream and a fizzy drink. The total cost is € 240. Code your payment with the word “Cinema trip”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.
• Pay for six children to make a trip to the Chipangali Wildlife orphanage.The trip is made by car, (a total journey of about 1000 km), and includes an overnight stay and food at our destination. In addition to visiting Chipangali, we also make a visit to the natural history museum. The total cost of this field trip is € 240. Code your payment with the word “Chipangali”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.
• Pay for six children to visit the Imire Safari Ranch.The children are taken there by car. The total cost of the journey is € 120. Code your payment with the word “Imire”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.
• Buy sports gear as prizes at our annual sports day. € 60 already buys T-shirts, shorts, trainers and caps. Code your payment with the words “Sports Day”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.
• Pay for about 30 children to have a specially-arranged weekendworkshop for choir, for a total cost of € 40. Code your payment with the word “Workshop”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.

Support the Dzikwa Choir. For € 60 we can purchase choir performance outfits for six performers. A complete set of outfits, for the entire choir costs € 240. Code your payment with the word “Choir”. The Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans bank account information can be found here.

To cover administrative expenses.