Remember someone like Pauline

You could help someone like Pauline, a courageous young girl from SOS Children's Village Waterfalls who has found success as a farm manager in Zimbabwe.

My Success Story

My name is Pauline Dinizhu (on the left in the photo). I grew up in SOS Children's Village Waterfalls and I went to SOS Primary school before proceeding to Girls' High School in Harare.

Upon completion, I enrolled at the SOS Vocational Training Centre for Agriculture in Shamva, near Bindura, north of Harare. My studies there opened up the entrepreneurial mind in me. I did my first attachment at the Pig Industry Board in Chishawasha. This gave me practical experience in the lucrative pig rearing business.

When I graduated, I opted to further my 'hands on' experience and got a job at Derby Farm, in Harare, as a farm manager. Most of the graduates of the SOS Vocational Training Centre for Agriculture are offered pieces of land to manage at the centres' Glen Avilin Farm, but it was my strongest belief that working as a farm manager would equip me with the skills I would need later on in life. I have now got about two years experience working as a farm manager.

I have recently submitted a proposal for a poultry project, while at the same time I have started another poultry project of about one hundred chicks. I am not going to stop at this, but I can see myself starting up my own piggery as well, in the future. I believe that even in this difficult time in Zimbabwe, animal husbandry offers good returns and will enable me to achieve my goals.

My appreciation goes to the entire SOS Children organisation for enabling me to become what I am today.

SOS Children has been working in Zimbabwe since 1983 and gives a family for life to over 170 children at the SOS Children's Village Waterfalls (Harare). A further 9,000 children and their families are supported by this village through the SOS School and Nursery Schools, an SOS Vocational Training Centre, and family support programmes which give practical support to children affected by HIV/AIDS.

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