Higherlife Foundation joins the world in commemorating World Prematurity Day

by Higherlife in Health. Posted November 17, 2021

Every year an estimated 15million babies worldwide are born preterm and this number is rising. Bringing it home, preterm birth complications are one of the leading causes of neonatal (newborns) deaths in Zimbabwe with the country having a Neonatal Mortality Rate of 32 deaths per 1000 live births. Born before their time, premature babies require intensive medical care and special equipment that ...

Upcoming webinar: Catalysing Vision 2030

by Higherlife in Events. Posted November 15, 2021

What will it take for Zimbabwe to achieve vision 2030? The answer is all of us! We are delighted to share that Sivio Institute is currently hosting a six-part series of dialogues bringing together citizens, the private sector, and government to develop and secure consensus on what it will take for our nation to achieve an ...

Higherlife Foundation distributes protective resources to persons living with Albinism.

by Higherlife in Our Work. Posted July 5, 2021

Albinism is an inherited genetic condition that reduces the amount of melanin pigment formed in the skin, hair and/or eyes making persons with the condition stand out in physical appearance. With no cure for the absence of melanin, persons living with albinism face discrimination and in different parts of the world are victims of violent ...

Africa Day Conversations: Connecting with Our Land

by Higherlife in Our Work, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted May 31, 2021

Africa Day on May 25 is an opportunity for all Africans, local and abroad to come together and celebrate our people, our culture and our connectedness. Commemorating the founding of the Organisation of African Unity now the African Union, the day is also about reflecting on where we have come from and where we are ...

Taking Learning to the Home and Community webinar series

by Higherlife in Education. Posted May 24, 2021

Parents/Guardians are a child’s first teacher. They teach their child to walk, to talk and interact with the world. But as the child grows and formal education begins, many parents defer the responsibility of teaching to the school. They focus on ensuring their children have access to education. COVID-19 and lockdown conditions forced this to ...

Lockdown Learning: Building Strong Foundations for Future Success

by Higherlife in Education. Posted May 5, 2021

Did you know that 60 years ago, more than half the world’s population could not read or write? Today this is less than 14% thanks to the global efforts in expanding Early Childhood Education and reducing education inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic has had damaging effects on the access to education for all learners, especially those ...

Catalysing Crisis Preparedness and Response in the nation

by Higherlife in Disaster Relief and Preparedness. Posted May 5, 2021

In 2020, as Zimbabwe faced the global COVID-19 crisis, central coordination and data management was imperative in the fight against the disease. To address this, we timeously operationalised the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC), which became the base of operations for Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 response, housing the national call centre. Located at Parirenyatwa Group of ...

Lifting Up the nation in prayer amidst the pandemic

by Higherlife in Faith and Development. Posted May 4, 2021

As the number of COVID-19 cases increased rapidly in December and January, many Zimbabweans lost friends, family and communities members. Seventy per cent of the COVID-19 deaths in the country occurred in January, and there was a great sense of despair and fear in the nation. Through our Faith and Development team and Global Intercessors, ...

Strengthening Maternal and Neonatal health care in Zimbabwe

by Higherlife in Health. Posted May 4, 2021

On Monday, 26 July 2020, eight Caesarean Section operations were performed at Zimbabwe’s Harare Central Hospital. Of these eight deliveries, seven babies were stillborn, and only one survived. For two weeks in December 2019, a 72-year-old self-taught midwife delivered over 250 infants in her small apartment, with no running water, in the poor suburb of Mbare in ...

Contributing towards Zimbabwe’s Food Security by 2050

by Higherlife in Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Posted May 4, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 2 focuses on the issue of food-seeking to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.” This aligns with our work in Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods (RTSL) to ensure food security in the communities we serve by catalysing the adoption of the climate-smart “Pfumvudza” farming approach. The ...