Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, only to find out that your blankets are drenched in rain water and the only thing you can do is to endure the night up until the sun rises. Sadly, that is the situation that Gogo Nyuchi and her family would find themselves in quite often...
Hardships come into people’s lives in different forms and different ways. Some face hardships in achieving just one goal but in the case of this elderly widow, surviving for a day became a hardship that she had to endure for the sake of her children – from having enough to eat and cover her body...
Ruth Makandiwa, through the Agape Family Care hosted a two-day Skills Training Program from the 28th to the 29th of March 2019 at the Kingston House in Harare CBD with the tagline “Empowering Women’s Creative Skills For Sustainable Livelihoods” as part of the Women’s Month commemorations. The main thrust of this program was to empower...
Just as our Lord Jesus Christ said in Matthew 22 vs. 39 “…Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”, Emmanuel and Ruth Makandiwa have always preached a gospel of love and compassion for others and they made a commitment to put this scripture into action by pioneering a mission of calling people to join hands in support...
THE UNITED FAMILY INTERNATIONAL CHURCH in conjunction with Agape Family Care has joined hands with well-wishers and its partners to mobilize relief aid for the victims of Cycle IDAI which hit the eastern part of Zimbabwe. Under the leadership of Emmanuel and Ruth Makandiwa, UFIC and AFC put scripture into practice by calling people to...
Gogo Melia Damiano (84 years old) who resides in Epworth, Harare relocated together with her husband from Malawi during the 1970s. After the passing on of her husband in 2000, she was left with 12 children that she had to take care of. “When my husband died, I didn’t know what to do because he...
The natural design of an African family gives most, if not all the responsibility to the husband or the father who is regarded as the head of the family and he has to provide for and feed the family. But in most unfortunate cases; when the breadwinner passes on, the mother and/ or the children...
In today’s world, many children are vulnerable to different kinds of abuse and due to their age; the victims, which in most cases are girls, are always in desperate need of a shoulder to lean on and a listening ear to help them. As part of her campaign #GirlChildSheCan, Prophetess Ruth Makandiwa, through the Agape...
A little over 40 kilometers away from Harare lies Murape Village in Seke. This village is home to an elderly woman who has endured very tough life experiences as she had to work hard to take care of her big family – 13 grandchildren who are all under the age of 16. But a...
‘Education is power’ The above phrase is common and young people all over the world have and are relentlessly pursuing academic goals but, for pupils using their laps as desks to write on whilst sitting in bare, scourging African Savannah heat, some taking shelter under tree canopies and more than ten pupils gathered around...
