Our work
Key pillars of sustainable change
Six programme areas, one method: designed with communities, delivered in partnership, owned locally.
Caritas Gweru works across the Diocese of Gweru through six programme pillars. They overlap by design. A water scheme protects a catchment, a catchment supports a garden, a garden feeds a household and frees a young person to train. Each page below sets out what the pillar covers and how it is delivered.
Water, hygiene, sanitation and care for the environment
Safe water within reach, and community structures equipped to keep it flowing.
Climate change
Disaster risk reduction, conservation farming and solarised gardens that hold through a dry year.
Livelihoods, food security and nutrition
Skills, inputs and gardens that move families from dependency to self-reliance.
Women empowerment, gender, child protection and safeguarding
Inclusion, protection and economic empowerment for women, children and people with disabilities.
Emergencies
Response, resilience and recovery when disaster disrupts community life.
Youth empowerment
Skills, enterprise and civic participation with young people across the diocese.
At a glance
The six pillars
Water, hygiene, sanitation and care for the environment
Safe water within reach, and community structures equipped to keep it flowing.
Climate change
Disaster risk reduction, conservation farming and solarised gardens that hold through a dry year.
Livelihoods, food security and nutrition
Skills, inputs and gardens that move families from dependency to self-reliance.
Women empowerment, gender, child protection and safeguarding
Inclusion, protection and economic empowerment for women, children and people with disabilities.
Emergencies
Response, resilience and recovery when disaster disrupts community life.
Youth empowerment
Skills, enterprise and civic participation with young people across the diocese.
The method
Nothing is delivered to a community. Everything is delivered with one.
Government departments, communities, local leaders, parishes and other stakeholders are in the room from design through to handover. That is what guarantees community ownership and keeps the work standing.