About Us
About Us
Improving Lives Through Collective Action and Community Strength
We are an indigenous, culturally-rooted membership based movement for development. Founded in 1980, the organization was registered as a welfare organization in 1981, dedicated to the promotion of rural development from the perspective of grassroots communities in Zimbabwe. We work across four provinces of Zimbabwe: Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South and Midlands. ORAP was established as a result of a strong passion to:
Eradicate poverty between and amongst the rural poor (women, Men and youth).
- Include the marginalized and the underprivileged members of Society, children, women and men into the mainstream of the Economy.
- Empower the rural poor, women and men socially, legally, Economically, politically and technologically.
- Provide an alternative approach to development in light of the Prevalent prescriptions and remedies for development.
- Preserve the best components of the traditional and local culture And use them as a springboard for further development.
About Us
OUR MISSION:
ORAP exists to fight all forms of poverty through empowerment of people by facilitating their development in their cultural context
OUR VISION:
ORAP envisions empowered grassroots communities free from hunger & poverty.
OUR GOAL:
To see rural communities of women, men and youth enabled to plan, implement and manage poverty alleviation strategies on a sustainable basis.
The tree model depicts the organisation where, being membership driven, ORAP continues to put communities in the fore front, as it seeks to implement community driven initiatives that are rooted in or born out of dialogue and community mobilisation.
The Team
Senior Management
Mvuselelo Huni
Chief Executive Officer
Stewart Mantula
Strategic Operations Director
Loryne Ndlovu
Programmes Director
Mabutho Mdlongwa
Finance and Administration Director
ORAP’s Philosophy:
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THEMATIC AREAS OF OPERATION
