Let's give girls training for a vibrant future

The December and January period are a busy season on Agros Farm and Training Center. December is when we say a tearful goodbye to the graduates of the 2024 Vocational Skills Training Program. These young women have completed a year worth of training learning commercial field and greenhouse farming. In December the girls said goodbye to the farm they had been working on for the past 12 months, to their instructors, and the friends that they had made over the course of the year. They dawned purple graduation robes and did their hair up extra nice before going on to the next stage of their life, now armed with an agricultural education. Most girls go back to their families in the rural areas of Zimbabwe, but this year a few girls were selected to stay at Agros Farm to work on attachment.

A few weeks after graduation its go-time. A group of twenty eager faces arrive at the farm after going through an extensive interview process. All of these girls have proven that they want to be here and are ready to get their boots in the mud. This year is a bit different than in years past, we are excited to integrate some young ladies from a different program of Sandra Jones called ‘She Can’. ‘She Can’ is a program for underaged girls to leave child prostitution and sexual exploitation through the power of education. They are given the choice of different training paths, one of which is now the agricultural program! Our group this year is a mix of girls from ‘She Can’ and girls who have applied from various rural homes around the country; they all have the same goal: to gain an education and set themselves up for a brighter future.

The team here at the American Foundation for Children with AIDS thanks you for supporting this project and the work we do for the children in Africa.  If you would like to learn even more about what we do or how you can meet some of the children you have helped, please contact Tanya Weaver at tweaver@AFCAids.org.