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Capital: Harare
Area: 390,580 kmē
Population: 11.5 million (December 2000 est.)
Ethnic groups: Shona (75%), Ndebele (24%), Asians, Europeans and others (2%)
Official language(s): English,Shona, Ndebele
Religion(s): Anglican or Roman Catholic (44.8%), indigenous Animist beliefs (40.4%), Hindu, Muslim and Jewish minorities.
Currency: 1 Zimbabwe dollar = 100 cents
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Our Facilites
The construction work on the first SOS Children's Village in Zimbabwe, in Bindura, started in 1980 and was completed in 1983, when the first children moved in. In the following years, different affiliated SOS facilities were erected in Bindura. In 1982 the SOS Maizeland Farm, located about 15 km from the SOS Children's Village Bindura, opened its doors. Youths are given a vocational training in agriculture and they can work in the work machinery workshop. The second SOS Children's Village in Waterfalls, a suburb of the capital Harare, was put into operation in 1989.
Five years later, in January 1994, the construction of a third SOS Children's Village in Bulawayo, the second largest city of Zimbabwe near the border to Botswana, commenced and in October 1995 the first families were able to move in. A SOS Kindergarten and a SOS School are affiliated to the SOS Children's Village Bulawayo. In 1999, the planning for the fourth SOS Children's Village in Gweru, about 240 km south of Harare, began. At the beginning of October 2000, the construction of three additional family houses in each of the Zimbabwean SOS Children's Villages commenced.
Contact:
SOS Children's Village Association of Zimbabwe
P.O.Box HG 766
Highlands/Harare
Zimbabwe
tel. +263-4-746 451
fax +263-4-746 454
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