MATTER Moments: April 2025
MATTER Moments explores the latest news and updates in April 2025.
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Celebrating 25 Years of Impact: MATTER’s Journey and Bold Vision for the Future
2025 marks a quarter century since MATTER’s founding. During the course of this year, we’ll highlight stories of impact and the people who were inspired to join this mission over the last 25 years. We’ll also take a peek into MATTER’s exciting future and invite you to join us as we continue our mission of
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Empowering Women Farmers: The Chidobe Chaya Processing Center is Here!
We’re thrilled to announce that the Chidobe Chaya Processing Center is now operational!
This innovative facility is run by the Chidobe women’s farming co-op and transforms surplus Chaya crops into marketable products like herbal teas, nutritional supplements, and smoothie powders.
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Grateful Together: How You Helped Change Lives
Dear Friends, As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m reflecting upon the many blessings we’ve experienced over the past year at MATTER. We have so much to be thankful for – beginning with YOU, our faithful partners, donors and volunteers. Together, we impacted nearly three million lives this year with improved healthcare, nutrition, education, and
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Chaya Kickstarter Campaign Launches!
For the last several years, we’ve been sharing the remarkable journey of the Chaya Tree Project in Zimbabwe. What began as a visionary idea by our dear friend Sandi Young to improve health in Zimbabwe through Chaya has blossomed into a thriving network of women’s farming cooperatives around the country. These resilient women are not
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Chidobe Chaya Center: Creating a Path to Sustainability
If you were anywhere near the small village of Chidobe outside of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, a couple of months ago you would have heard a dozen or more voices raised in joyful, exuberant singing. You probably would have stopped what you were doing to try and figure out what was going on. You would have
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Chaya Co-ops: Connecting Women, Improving Health, Growing a Future
We are currently in the next phase of our Chaya Project in Zimbabwe, raising $50,000 to establish ten women’s farming cooperatives throughout the country. The goal of these co-ops is to train the women on how to grow, propagate and cook Chaya to improve their families’ health and nutrition. The long-term plan is to show
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Growing Chaya and Community: Sandi Young’s You Matter Story
On this Give to the Max Day, we’re kicking off the next phase of our Chaya campaign in Zimbabwe aimed at empowering women to feed their families, through growing Chaya and community. Our goal is to raise $50,000 toward the establishment of ten women’s farm co-ops around the country. The $5,000 per site cost includes
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Chaya Tree Campaign: Incredible Response Towards Supporting Womens’ Co-ops
Earlier this month, we launched the second phase of our Chaya campaign to improve the health of the people of Zimbabwe. In our first phase, we planted 75,000 trees throughout the country. In this second phase, we’ll partner with 20 women’s co-ops, giving them the tools and resources they need to grow Chaya and feed
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Empower Women. Feed Families. The Chaya Tree Campaign.
Earlier this year, we introduced you to Mrs. Stella Fundira who lives in Zimbabwe. She was one of the first women in her country to plant Chaya trees in her garden several years ago. It was a game-changer for her and her family. “As a retired person, I have depended mainly on the help I
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