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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HARARE 000098 
 
SIPDIS 
 
AF/S FOR BNEULING, AF/EPS, NSC FOR SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR 
¶C. COURVELLE D. TEITELBAUM, USDOC FOR ROBERT TELCHIN, 
TREASURY FOR OREN WYCHE-SHAW, PASS USTR FOR FLORIZELLE 
LISER, STATE PASS USAID WASHDC FOR AFR/DP, STATE PASS USAID 
WASHDC FOR AFR/SA, STATE PASS USAID FOR MARJORIE COPSON, 
NAIROBI FOR REDSO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID XA ZI KPRP
SUBJECT: ZIMBABWE,S AMBASSADOR,S SPECIAL SELF-HELP PROGRAM 
FINAL REPORT FOR FY2004 AND FUNDING REQUEST FOR FY 2005FY 
2005 
 
REF: STATE 06604 
 
¶1. (U) Post does not anticipate returning any of its USD 
89,100 FY 2004 Self-Help Allowance for re-allocation.  Funds 
were obligated on September 30, 2004 as outlined in 
paragraphs 3, and 4 below. 
 
¶2. (U) For FY 2005, post requests Self-Help funding be 
restored to the FY 2003 level of USD 110,000.  The continuing 
socio-economic crises in Zimbabwe show no sign of subsiding 
and the need for assistance continues to increase.  Chronic 
hyper-inflation eats away at funding before it can be used. 
In this environment, stagnant funding levels would reduce 
post,s ability to assist those in need.  A decrease in 
funding would magnify this effect even more.  The Self-Help 
Program represents one of the best remaining channels for the 
USG to foster good relations with the people of Zimbabwe. 
Self-Help projects not only create goodwill among Self-Help 
beneficiaries, but the GOZ-controlled media also runs 
positive stories on these projects. 
 
¶3. (U) Due to funding cuts and triple-digit inflation, post 
only funded 10 projects in FY 2004 compared to 16 projects in 
FY 2003. Post funded 2 water projects; 3 income generation 
projects, 2 school construction projects, 2 medical clinics, 
and 1 training facility. 
 
Project Number    Project Name 
Amount Funded 
Description 
 
IAA-04-613-01     Youth Ahead Zimbabwe 
Allocation:       USD 5,000.00 
The grant provides sewing machines and an over locking 
machine to assist this vocational training center in its 
dressmaking, knitting, and welding classes. 
 
IAA-04-613-02     Chinyadzo Clinic 
Allocation:       USD 9,000.00 
The grant will provide this community-based clinic with roof 
caps, doors, windows, beds, mattresses, and lockers to finish 
constructing and furnishing the facility. 
 
IAA-04-613-03     Mudavanhu School Project 
Allocation: USD 8,500.00 
The grant will provide a grinding mill to this school for 
children with disabilities in order to help the school 
generate income. 
 
IAA-04-613-04     Munemo Clinic 
Allocation: USD 16,000.00 
The grant will help the local community build a new rural 
health clinic for four hundred households in eight local 
villages. The community submitted a proposal four years ago 
but have only ramped up their efforts in the past year by 
making bricks, bringing sand and gravel to the site, 
trenching for the foundation, and making a reservoir for 
water. 
 
IAA-04-613-05     Nembuzia Primary School 
Allocation: USD 6,000.00 
The grant will provide piping to link the school with a 
municipal water supply 2.5 km away. The school,s 672 
students otherwise share dug wells with cattle. The school 
has formed a water committee and the community will dig the 
trench. 
 
IAA-04-613-06     Nyachura Secondary School 
Allocation: USD 15,000.00 
The grant will provide classrooms and teacher housing, with 
classrooms as the first priority in case the money runs out. 
The 271 students and 12 teachers grow and sell vegetables 
from the school garden to generate income for the school. The 
school will provide skilled and unskilled labor for the 
building project. 
 
IAA-04-613-07     Makumbi Sewing Co-Op 
Allocation:       USD 4,500.00 
The grant will purchase and over locking machine, fabric, 
buttons and snaps, and other miscellaneous sewing items for 
this 10-woman co-operative.  These supplies will enable the 
women to boost their production of girl,s uniforms for the 
local Makumbi Mission School, which also provides the women 
with a room to do their work. 
 
IAA-04-613-08     Chinove Secondary School 
Allocation: USD 11,000.00 
The grant will enable the community to complete a new 
2-classroom block, which they built with their own resources, 
by providing roofing, window and doorframes, plastering, and 
other hardware. 
 
IAA-04-613-09     Musvovi Primary School 
Allocation:       USD 10,000.00 
The grant will pay for new pipes, a water tank, and a 
windmill pump for the school borehole. 
 
IAA-04-613-10     Kushinga Nyangambe Paper Makers Co-Op 
Allocation: USD 4,100.00 
The grant will provide electricity and electrical outlets to 
complete this 2001 Self-Help project. The Ministry of Youth 
Development, Gender, and Employment Creation reneged on its 
2001 promise to provide electricity to the site and the 
women,s co-operative has since been unable to make use of 
the electric paper-making machinery we provided. 
DELL