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Sponsor a Child's Education in Zimbabwe .
When you donate to a charity that values transparency and community partnership, every dollar creates real impact. Sponsor a child’s education and give them hope, opportunity, and a brighter future.
Your Donation Directly Changes Lives
Through collaboration and mutual respect, we’re building more than structures. We’re creating pathways to education, healthcare, and sustainable futures for Beatrice Farming Community. Choose where your support makes the greatest impact.
Sponsor School Fees
Children in Beatrice farming community rise at 04:00am to walk 20kms to school. Some have dropped out entirely. have dropped out entirely. For $35 AUD per month ($420 AUD per year) you can sponsor a child’s schooling and healthcare.
Your sponsorship covers:
- Three terms of school fees ($25 per term)
- Backpack, stationery and books
- School uniform and shoes
- Textbooks and stationery
- Bus for transport to and from school plus maintenance of the bus.
- Trauma counselling and basic healthcare
- Ongoing progress updates
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Build A School
We’re building a school in Beatrice Farming Community to honour Patrick Chihwayi and 4 children who lost their lives while he was transporting 22 children home from school. This project brings quality education within walking distance, transforming how children access learning and creating a hub for the entire community.
Current priorities:
- $15,000 for land taxes to secure the 21.4-hectare site
- $10,000 to fence the property
- $5,000 for land clearing and site preparation
Elsie Porter’s (nee Chihwayi) family have donated land for this project. Every dollar brings us closer to breaking ground. Support Zimbabwe education where it matters most.
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Build A Clinic
Alongside the school, we’re building a medical clinic to provide emergency healthcare access to Beatrice Farming Community. Currently, medical emergencies require hours of travel, leading to preventable deaths. Women give birth at home without assistance. This clinic will save lives.
Medical clinic will provide:
- Emergency medical care within the community
- Maternal and child health services
- Basic medical treatment and supplies
- Healthcare access that prevents tragedy
A local doctor has donated adjoining land specifically for this project, believing every community deserves healthcare within reach.
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Partner With Us To Create Lasting Impact
Whether you’re an individual looking to honour loved ones through charity, a business seeking meaningful corporate partnerships, or someone wanting to participate in fundraising events, there’s a place for you in our community.
Monthly Giving Program
Join our monthly giving to Zimbabwe children programme and become a sustaining partner. Set up automatic donations and provide consistent, reliable support. Monthly donors receive quarterly impact reports showing exactly how their contributions create change.
Become a Corporate Sponsor
Partner with an accountable charity in Australia that values transparency and measurable outcomes. We work with businesses to create meaningful corporate social responsibility programmes, employer matching gifts, and workplace giving
campaigns.
In Kind Donations Zimbabwe
Professional services, equipment, educational materials donation, and expertise are just as valuable as financial support. We welcome school furniture donations, art supplies donation, teaching supplies donation, and pro bono professional services.
Why We Started
Two Families, One Mission
On 31 May 2023, Elsie Porter’s father, Patrick Chihwayi and 4 children were tragically killed while he was driving them home from school in the Beatrice farming community. Eighteen children survived but with lasting scars.
Patrick had been their lifeline, covering school fees, providing uniforms, and ensuring children had access to education. Elsie couldn’t let his work end.
In Australia, Sue Lay had just lost her mother, Jill, who had taught English in Zimbabwe decades earlier and where her father, Dick, had worked as a geologist.
Two families. Two legacies. One urgent need.
Today, children still wake at 4:00am to walk 20km to school. Some have dropped out completely. Others are falling into darkness. This is why Elsie and Sue founded Zimbabwean EduHealth Organisation.
Our Vision
To stand beside remote Zimbabwean communities as they strengthen their futures, where quality education and essential healthcare are accessible to all, and every family is empowered to thrive through opportunity, sustainability and mutual respect and collaboration.
Through grassroots partnerships we will assist in building brighter futures – one village at a time.
Our Mission
To partner with remote Zimbabwean communities by expanding access to quality education and healthcare, guided by faith in humanity, compassion, and a shared commitment to dignity, sustainability and lasting impact.
Real Lives, Real Impact
These are the children Patrick was driving home. These are the families forever changed. These are the reasons we keep going.
Shaylene, Age 5
From Tragedy to Hope
Shaylene was 3 and sitting next to Patrick Chihwayi when the accident took her brother Prince. She received injuries to her upper arm and leg. At 5, she’s back in school, smiling again. But she needs ongoing support to heal.
The Teenage Mother
When a Child Loses Her Childhood
At 13, trauma overwhelmed her. She failed exams. Her parents said, “Get married.” At 13, a wife. At 14, a mother. Now 15, raising a daughter. We’re helping her return to school and break this cycle.
The Boy Who Fell
A Race Against Time
He survived at 14, but trauma took hold. Now he’s drinking, using drugs, slipping away. We’re working with counsellors to reach him. He needs to know someone cares. Time is running out.
Mai Pipi, Mother
From Loss to Gratitude
When a road accident took Mr Chihwayi and her son Prince on 31 May 2023, Mai Pipi’s world changed. Mr Chihwayi was like family and cared deeply for the community. She finds comfort knowing their kindness lives on as children can now get to school safely.
Baba Oliver, Father
A Hope for Healing
“I can’t erase the thought that if there had been a clinic nearby the 4 kids, including my own, plus Mr Chihwayi would have had a better chance of survival in the aftermath of the accident. In reality, they had to wait two hours for medical attention. I have no words.”
Our Mission & Goals
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Meet the Women Behind the Mission
Elsie - Co-Founder
On 31 May 2023, I lost my father Patrick Chihwayi in the most devastating way imaginable. He was doing what he always did, driving children home from school. That’s who he was. A man who paid school fees for families who couldn’t afford them. A man who woke early to transport children. A man who believed every child deserves education.
When I got the news, my world shattered. But in my grief, I found purpose.
My father spent his life lifting others up, especially in communities where opportunities were scarce but potential was great. I couldn’t let his work end. I couldn’t let those children continue suffering. I couldn’t turn away from the community that loved him.
So alongside my dear friend Sue, we founded this organisation. Not as saviours, but as partners. Not to create dependency, but to build sustainability. Not to impose solutions, but to support community-led change.
This is my father’s living legacy. This is how his light continues to shine.
Every child sponsored, every donation received, every life changed, it’s Patrick continuing his work through all of us.
Sue - Co-Founder
My family resided in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1958 till 1969, where my mother Gillian (Jill) taught English at a boys’ high school and my father worked as a geologist. To them, Rhodesia was “God’s own country,” a rich, fertile land full of potential. Those days were such a contrast to Zimbabwe now.
My father died of cancer in 1998 at just 71 years old. My darling mother passed away in July 2025 at 97, her mind clouded by advanced dementia.
When I received my inheritance, I knew exactly what to do. Part of it is being used to purchase a 24-seater school bus for Beatrice farming community, in a country my parents loved. Elsie and I are currently sourcing a bus which will be dedicated to my parents’ memory.
Dick and Jill valued integrity, generosity, respect, and understanding of cultural differences. Through this work, I uphold those values.
To the best of my ability, I will honour their legacy by empowering communities we serve with access to quality education and healthcare.
Help Us Build a School
Victorian Getaway Holiday Vouchers
Purchase a 3-day holiday voucher to beautiful Victoria for just $100. Your purchase directly funds education sponsorship in Africa while giving you an incredible escape. It’s not a raffle, you’re guaranteed the voucher. Accommodation partners provide rooms that would otherwise remain empty, so everyone wins.
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Other Upcoming Events
More Ways to Get Involved
Annual Fundraising Gala
- March 15, 2025
- Melbourne Convention Centre
Join us for an evening of inspiration, entertainment, and fundraising to support our school and clinic projects in Zimbabwe.
Community Awareness Day
- April 20, 2025
- Beatrice Village, Zimbabwe
Visit our projects firsthand and meet the children and families whose lives are being transformed.
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Latest News
Stay updated on our progress and impact
February 1, 2025
First School Construction Begins
Ground has been broken on our first school project in Beatrice. Local community members joined us for the ceremony.
January 15, 2025
Featured in National Newspaper
EduHealth Organisation was featured in a major newspaper highlighting our mission and impact.
December 20, 2024
Partnership with Local Health Authority
We have partnered with Zimbabwe’s health authority to ensure our clinic meets all standards and serves the community effectively.
Stay Connected
Have questions about how can I sponsor a child in Zimbabwe? Want to discuss corporate partnerships? Interested in upcoming fundraising events? We’d love to hear from you.