How it began.

A Mother's Quest: Overcoming Economic Meltdown & Fighting for Inclusivity

Unseen Chains: The Stigma of Disability and Witchcraft in Culture

Hidden Lives: The Untold Stories of Children with Cerebral Palsy

COA and Global Solutions unite to create a powerful alliance for the betterment of people with disabilities in Zimbabwe.

Davis and Lucia Mambure are Zimbabwean missionaries with Cru who also founded the Chenga Ose Association for women with disabled children. They provide updates on their family, ministry, church growth, and fundraising efforts.

Parents of children with special needs, Bruno and Nadine, share their testimony of how their children have been a blessing to their ministry. They hope to reach out to pastors and leaders with similar stories to empower a generation of caregivers.

As the GCM National Leader, Davis focuses on equipping his team to support churches in Zimbabwe and fulfill the great commission by planting vital churches in various communities. He and Pastor Sanjaye Sahye participated in MCC, training 200 leaders in evangelism and discipleship.

Lucia and Davis Mambure are CRU missionaries in Zimbabwe who founded Chenga Ose Association to support caregivers of disabled children, including their own son Tapona. They provide emotional, spiritual, and social support, and started initiatives like farming projects and food distribution during COVID lockdown.

This week, Davis and Lucia collaborated with Global BP, sharing their impactful partnership with COA during the national lockdown, and highlighting their combined efforts with local churches to support caregivers and disabled children in Epworth, Zimbabwe, while emphasizing the potential growth of this relationship through divine guidance and forthcoming initiatives.

Davis and the team have made significant strides in the Chinyani village's agricultural project, battling unpredictable weather and climate change, while learning invaluable lessons on teamwork and project coordination, with plans to expand and replicate their conservation farming techniques across other communities in Harare, as well as intending to improve water security via irrigation systems, all towards the broader goal of community empowerment.

Celebrating the life of a cherished woman who has passed, her story and her mother's love, and the support they received from COA, have been instrumental in nurturing seeds of faith and relationships, inspiring the growth of COA's outreach from a single family to hundreds, thus leaving a lasting, beautiful legacy that continues to influence and inspire global acts of kindness and justice.

Celebrating the life of a cherished woman who has passed, her story and her mother's love, and the support they received from COA, have been instrumental in nurturing seeds of faith and relationships, inspiring the growth of COA's outreach from a single family to hundreds, thus leaving a lasting, beautiful legacy that continues to influence and inspire global acts of kindness and justice.

When the initial wave of the COVID19 pandemic hit Zimbabwe, a food crisis emergency emerged, especially within the disability community. Fortunately there were angels out there who partnered with COA and came up with a relief food aid distribution program. Our Chinyani support group in Murehwa, Mashonaland East was part of the beneficiaries.

“We tilled the land, planted the seed and God watered…”

Davis, Lucia, and the Chinyani Village Support Group have been diligently cultivating a five-acre plot of land in Murehwa with steadfast faith, aiming to start planting soon, with a hopeful prayer that their efforts and the ensuing garden will flourish and multiply in the coming days and years.

As COA prepares a community garden amid the COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the project, supported by widespread community participation, aims not just to provide food and income but also serve as an agricultural model for other villages, demonstrating resilience and adaptation in these critical times.

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