Afro Edge Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls · Hwange District, Zimbabwe

Communities alongside wildlife, leading their own change.

Afro Edge is a youth-driven, women-focused non-profit. We work with the people of Victoria Falls and Hwange on health, education, the environment and social services, in a place where the heat is rising, the rain is falling short and elephants walk past the fence.

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A volunteer and a community staff member playing a tyre-rolling game with children in school uniform on red earth
  • Since 2012 working in Hwange District
  • Registered NGO PVO 01/24
  • Based in Victoria Falls

Why Victoria Falls and Hwange

Life alongside wildlife is shaped by forces no household controls.

Temperatures are higher. The rains are shorter and less reliable. Food, fuel and school fees move with prices set far away, and wildlife shares the land, the water and the fields.

Young people and women carry much of the load, and they already know what works. Afro Edge backs them with skills, systems and funding, so change is led from inside the community and lasts.

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Our programmes

Four programmes. One community.

Current project

Waste becomes food. Food becomes work.

Hotels and businesses in Victoria Falls separate their food waste. We collect it and take it to Sizinda, where young people turn it into vermicompost and grow organic produce. The cycle keeps money, nutrients and jobs inside the community.

We run it with Pristine Victoria Falls Society, the community movement behind the street clean-ups, street adoption and school campaigns. PVFS brings more than 400 trained members and 15 street chapters. Afro Edge brings the technical design and a seat on its board.

  • 400+trained community members
  • 15street chapters
  • 4programmes the loop feeds
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The circular economy loop Four stages in a cycle: businesses in Victoria Falls separate food waste, the waste is collected, young people make vermicompost at Sizinda, and organic produce is grown and returns to the community. Food wasteseparated Wastecollected Youth makevermicompost Organicproduce grown

Impact

See the work as it happens.

Our live dashboard tracks the food waste collected from hotels and lodges: collections, kilograms, where it goes and the carbon avoided. Grant-makers and partners can read the reports behind it.

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It shows food waste collections as they are recorded.

See the full dashboard and reports

Get involved

Pick the way that fits you.

  • Give

    For individuals

    Give to the whole community or to one programme.

    Donate

  • Partner

    For companies, hotels and lodges

    Supply food waste, co-fund the loop, adopt a street or sponsor a school.

    Start a partnership

  • Fund

    For grant-makers and institutions

    Read our governance, results and prospectus, then talk to the programme leads.

    Request the prospectus

  • Volunteer

    For individuals and groups

    Join a placement in Victoria Falls. Your fee pays for your stay and funds our programmes.

    See placements

Working with

Our partners

  • Roger Federer Foundation
  • Pristine Victoria Falls Society
  • City of Victoria Falls
  • Hwange Rural District Council
  • Zimbabwe Medical Students Association
  • WWF
  • Global Greengrants Fund
  • DUF (Dansk Ungdoms Fællesråd)
  • International Medical Corporation Committee
  • Zimbabwe Workcamps Association

Stories

From the field

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  • Volunteers and local staff standing together in front of a building
    Volunteers and local staff
  • Rows of vegetables on red soil at sunset on the Sizinda farm
    The Sizinda farm at sunset
  • A volunteer drawing with young children at a table in a bright red classroom
    An early childhood classroom