Background of the Organisation

Unemployed and Vulnerable Foundation Trust (UVFT) is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 as a self-help group and was registered in 2020 as a Trust. Its head offices are in Bulawayo Metropolitan provinces and Matabeleland North, where it is implementing its work. UVFT has a working relationship with the Ministry of Youth, Ministry of Women Affairs, and Ministry of Social Welfare in complementing government’s efforts.

UVFT’s mandate is to facilitate employment creation, infrastructure development, food security, and skill-based inclusive education through programs that meet the needs of marginalized boys and girls in society. Their main program focuses on specific segments of the population, including young women, youths, people with disabilities, and key vulnerable populations. UVFT promotes socio-economic freedom as a yardstick of sustainable agricultural impact. The organization was founded on the belief that communities have the knowledge, resources, and potential to grow ideas.

Headquarters

UVFT headquarters is located in Bulawayo. The organization is currently operating from the city and intends to cascade its operations to other districts outside Bulawayo and expand to other countries, including Zimbabwe.

Monitoring & Evaluation

Monitoring & Evaluation is established by the board of trustees, and implementation is done by the secretariat. This embraces efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and ensures that projects are carried out according to plan from conception through achieving set objectives without deviation from the intended goals. The achievement of goals is ensured without deviation from the objectives set.

Organisation Structure

UVFT is managed by a board of trustees, comprising of four females and one male. They are solely responsible for ensuring that the organization is on track with regards to meeting its goals and policy creation. Other general roles include strategic planning, budgeting, fundraising, policy development, and oversight management.

The board of directors works together with the secretariat management team, which is responsible for program implementation led by the Director who then reports to the Board of Trustees.

Meet the Team

  • Vusumuzi Ndlovu
  • Founder
  • Harry Kapenya
  • Trustee
  • Barnabas Mzila
  • Trustee
  • Fortune N Mateta
  • Trustee
  • Sindiswa Hlungwani
  • Trustee

Objectives

  • To educate members of the society to refrain from immorality through programs that enables them to develop a common sense. Moral compass and to give the community an active role in building responsibility, trust and decency
  • To create income generating projects for the unemployed and vulnerable people of Zimbabwe
  • To empower young people through ICT, SRHR, and Social Network Programmes
  • To promote programmes that successfully rehabilitate inmates and mental retarded patients so that they become useful and accepted members in the society
  • To engage professional addiction counselling for drug abuse addicts and other issues that affect the well-being of the society
  • To end the spread of HIV and AIDS among the community and also educate on Cancer, Diabetes and other Paramedics

Vision

To promote an active, educated, morally upright and vulnerable adolescent young men and women that understand, respect and uphold the welfare of the disadvantaged

Mission

To prevent and redeem the unemployed young men and women in the society on the importance of job creation. SRHR, economic strengthening, moral values encourage and empower everyone on the programs that will cater for the unemployed and vulnerable members in Zimbabwe

Organizations Values

  • Respect of Human Rights
  • Team work
  • Exclusiveness
  • Community Empowerment
  • Community Involvement
  • Commitment
  • Excellence
  • Voluntarism
  • Education
  • Transparency
  • Accountability

Activities by the Organisation

  • Training: In 2022 the organisation implemented a program on regenerative economy targeting 200 women in urban farming.
  • Advocacy: The same program which was facilitated by Agritex officers, educated women on innovative agriculture and issues of climate change and adaptation
  • Economic Strengthening: Through partnerships with local community structures, in 2020 the organisation implemented a program on the food solution challenge (Building a sustainable cold storage supply chain in Bulawayo)
  • Employment Creation: The organisation continues to engage with various stakeholders in creating employment opportunities for youths in the country

Our Target Market: 7-50 Years

The design of the programs entails the interaction with OVC’s , marginalised groups and unemployed members of Zimbabwe through offering psychological support, SRHR knowledge, economic strengthening programs, advocacy and employment creation.