{"id":1334,"date":"2021-05-30T16:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=1334"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:31:14","slug":"june-charity-appeal-friends-of-hlekweni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/june-2021\/june-charity-appeal-friends-of-hlekweni\/","title":{"rendered":"June Charity Appeal: Friends of Hlekweni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of Hlekweni (FoH) (see<a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofhlekweni.org.uk\"> http:\/\/friendsofhlekweni.org.uk<\/a>) supports education, training, and peacebuilding in southern Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. We continue a longstanding concern of Friends in Britain Yearly Meeting and Southern Africa YM, which Oxford Meeting has supported for many years. Trustees are in close touch with our partners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1336\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-9.02.31-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1336\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-9.02.31-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-9.02.31-AM.png 982w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-9.02.31-AM-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-9.02.31-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-30-at-9.02.31-AM-768x762.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided by Clerk of Friends of Hlekweni, Lee Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some F\/friends may have noted the recent announcement of the Trustees to close the charity in right ordering.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Hlekweni remains committed to full operational work in 2021; indeed, we have made very significant additional grants to each of the schools supported and to the Peace building work as well as sending out several large boxes of resources. For example &#8211; we have bought over 300 individual desks\/chairs, and textbooks for all the final year primary students. We are working with one school on the building of a simple teacher accommodation block.<\/p>\n<p>We want to celebrate the generosity of F\/friends over the years by ensuring that there will be final grants to enable core work to carry on in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please continue the June appeal!<\/strong> Indeed, we are encouraging Meetings, Trusts and individual F\/friends to consider their own way of donating to mark their link with Friends of Hlekweni.<\/p>\n<p>We will be communicating further over this year about our work, and to let people know about organisations with similar objectives and values if they wish to continue donating to work in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Hlekweni has stepped up to support emergency COVID-19 needs for our partner schools and projects. Schools are reopening but facing even more issues about overcrowding, sanitation, and lack of textbooks and e-resources.<\/p>\n<p>An exciting development is the project for a Zimbabwe-based Peace Club manual. And Alternative to Violence Projects Zimbabwe are continuing to run many courses, focussed on groups they have identified.<\/p>\n<div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#f0f5f0;    '>\r\n                            Donations hugely appreciated via:<\/p>\n<p>Bank transfer:<br \/>\nCooperative Bank, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester.<br \/>\nSort code: 08 92 99.<br \/>\nAccount number 65319891<br \/>\n\u2014 or \u2014<br \/>\nCheques to:<br \/>\nFriends of Hlekweni,<br \/>\nc\/o The Quaker Centre,<br \/>\n1 Oakley Gardens, Downhead Park,<br \/>\nMilton Keynes, MK15 9BH\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/june-2021\/\">Back to June 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 506 \u2022 June 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of Hlekweni (FoH) (see http:\/\/friendsofhlekweni.org.uk) supports education, training, and peacebuilding in southern Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. We continue a longstanding concern of Friends in Britain Yearly Meeting and Southern Africa YM, which Oxford Meeting has supported for many years. Trustees are in close touch with our partners. Some F\/friends may have noted the recent announcement of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/june-2021\/june-charity-appeal-friends-of-hlekweni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June Charity Appeal: Friends of Hlekweni<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":1313,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions\/1341"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}