FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa’s Angel of Hope is targeting to offer short courses to indigenous churches in partnership with the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU).
Council of Churches in Africa (CCA) president Rocky Moyo said over 2 000 church members had so far registered for the short courses.
“CCA is the exclusive beneficiary of the Angel of Hope in partnership with Zimbabwe Open University,” he said.
“We are very happy because we have so far managed to register close to 2 000 members in Bulawayo province and people are still coming in with hopes that maybe they will reach around 3 000.”
According to Moyo, they target registering 50 000 church members across the country to benefit from the short courses.
“We are targeting around 50 000 around the country as CCA, not as Angel of Hope,” Moyo said.
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“We are also targeting that in the next five years, we train around one million members through this initiative.
“It is a long-term project and in the next three years we are hoping we will have gotten close to a million. The courses are for free and they are meant to change people’s lives.”
ZOU vice-chancellor’s office director Eurita Nyamanhare confirmed the partnership with CCA and Angel of Hope .
“As ZOU, we had a memorandum of understanding with CCA as of March 2024,” Nyamanhare said.
“CCA is coming as an exclusive beneficiary of short courses going for only five days. The short courses are intended to improve the skills that they already have.”
Nyamanhare said they intended to partner other churches.
“We are not only out for CCA members, but we hope to spread and cover other churches,” Nyamanhare said.
Last year, the government conferred Angel of Hope with the Jairos Jiri Humanitarian Award in Gold for its alleged dedication to the betterment of humanity through its humanitarian work.