Fountain of Hope is a faith based organization run by Gideon and Jennifer whose main mission is to combat the spread and reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children, women, and the community at large through the provision of orphan care services, HIV/AIDS workshops and community based development projects.

Gideon and Jennifer have been living in and working with the community of Mthombothemba since the early 2000's. In the process of doing so they have discovered many vulnerable children; orphans, abused and abandoned children and children affected by the high levels of poverty in the community. They have brought a number of them into a secure home to better care for them.

Gideon and Jennifer have developed many networks and key relationships which has allowed them to have a significant impact in this community. This partnership focuses on feeding the most vulnerable children in the community, providing goat loans to families of vulnerable children so they can afford to send their own children to school and training local communities in Foundations for Farming methods and mind sets.

Zimbabwe's economy is driven by agriculture and the majority of rural people depend on it for their livelihood. About 80% of the rural population live in regions where rainfall is erratic and unreliable, making dry land cultivation a big challenge. The success rate of rain fed agriculture has been known to be in the order of one good harvest in every 5 years. It is to this backdrop that Fountain of Hope would like to continue to improve the quality of life in these regions of Zimbabwe, one village at a time, through increasing household food security.

Gideon and Jennifer have developed many networks and key relationships which has allowed them to have a significant impact in this community. This partnership focuses on getting the most vulnerable children in the community into school and feeding them once a day, providing goat loans to families of vulnerable children so they can afford to send their own children to school and training local communities in Foundations for Farming methods and mind sets.

Gideon and Jennifer have developed many networks and key relationships which has enabled them to have a significant impact in various remote villages in Zimbabwe. Mtshazo village is a village in a new area, approximately 85 kms to the south of Mthombothemba. There is no church there but a strong invitation.

Mandiva is located in Masvingo province of Zimbabwe, one of worst regions for low rainfall. The rainfall they receive every farming season is below normal and the soil is very poor for farming which leaves the people of this region in dire need of food almost every year.

Gideon and Jennifer have developed many networks and key relationships which has enabled them to have a significant impact in various remote villages in Zimbabwe. Chirogwe is not far from Mandiva and is very remote and arid. There is a church of about 80 people in the area and the people are pretty poor.

Nemauzhe is a community in Chivi district of Masvingo province which was influenced by the community of Mandiva (ZIM02d) to consider practicing farming God’s way as a way of breaking the cycle of poverty. It is one of the largest communities in Chivi with many villages. As they have done in other communities like Makamure (ZIM02c), Fountain of Hope will slowly move from one village to another until the whole community has been transformed to be able to change their situation and circumstances.

Maunga Farm is a poverty stricken area. People were resettled here by the government in 2002/2002 but no infrastructure was developed. They are peasant farmers and barely make a living in a good year but years of ongoing drought have made life even more difficult. Rodwell Masanga and his family have a vision to see the community transformed and plan to move into the area and become agents of change.

The pressures of 12 years of national mismanagement and the impact of HIV / AIDS has ripped the heart out of the community of Norton. There are now large numbers of widows that are HIV+ and many, many orphans and vulnerable children. It is these vulnerable women and children that are the focus of this partnership.

The heart of this partnership is to start a commercial vegetable production unit to generate resources that will make it possible to fund the existing beneficiaries of Tariro Support Group and grow to help more people into the future.

At Vimbai Primary School in Norton is a resource unit for 27 physically and intellectually challenged children. The children are not well treated by the other children or even the teachers. They have few resources, many need wheelchairs and other specialised equipment and the parents are not well able to provide it.