Charity
Inter-Country Peoples Aid

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We hope you find the information presented here, about the work of IPA in informal settlements, interesting. If you would like to receive IPA’s email monthly bulletin, which provides more information about their programmes, please email Gladys Jaji at jaji@ipa.co.zw

IPA’s History

Inter-Country Peoples' Aid was established as a Zimbabwean, Non-Governmental Organisation in 1994 and is registered with the Department of Social Welfare, the Ministry of Public Services and the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. When Inter-Country Peoples' Aid was founded, its activities were focused on Mozambican refugees, running mine awareness campaigns for UNHCR in five refugee camps within Zimbabwe. In anticipation of the successful repatriation programme of May 1995, Inter-Country Peoples' Aid began to broaden its remit to include projects benefiting disadvantaged Zimbabweans and Mozambicans in their respective countries. Projects successfully completed and handed over by Inter-Country Peoples' Aid since 1995 include brick moulding, market gardening and health care initiatives in Manica Province, Mozambique and a stone sculpture workshop and crafts co-operative in the high density suburb of Mbare in Harare.

Guided by their mandate to empower the most disadvantaged members of society, Inter-Country Peoples' Aid's strategic focus is now on informal settlements in peri-urban areas surrounding Harare. Programme areas are Child Welfare, Education, Environment & Sanitation, Health & HIV/AIDS, Poverty Alleviation, and Research, Information and Advocacy.

IPA’s Mission

Inter-Country Peoples' Aid's mission is to identify distressed communities with special focus on children, provide material relief, enhance community coping strategies and contribute towards the national response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic in a cultural and gender sensitive manner in Zimbabwe.

The organization has been implementing various programmes including the School Based Feeding Programme (SBFP) since 2004 with support from the World Food Programme (WFP). This programme focused on the peri-urban communities of Hatcliffe and Epworth. IPA expanded to other peri-urban communities of Kintyre and surrounding farm schools in Zvimba District of Mashonaland West Province. A rapid assessment on the food security situation in Mabvuku, Tafara, Kuwadzana, Warren Park and Chitungwiza suburbs was conducted by both IPA & WFP. More so, the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVac) indicated that these areas were food insecure. This resulted in the programme expanding to cover the Kuwadzana & Warren Park communities. Currently the programme supports a total of 37 primary schools and 13 pre-schools in both urban and peri-urban communities of Harare.

IPA’s Vision

Inter-Country People’s Aid’s vision is to be the most efficient and effective leading organization in the provision and facilitation of interventions to distressed communities.

Contact

Director: Gladys Jaji
Email: jaji@ipa.co.zw

Address: Inter-Country Peoples' Aid
PO Box CY2008, Causeway, Harare
TELONE TRAINING CENTRE, Harare, Zimbabwe

Tel: (263-4) 710639/710647/780663

Cell: 0912327243/023433015/0913103551

CharityInter-Country Peoples Aid

Charity
Inter-Country Peoples Aid