The Zienzele Foundation - Nancy Clark

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Bio: The Zienzele Foundation works in some of the poorest villages in Zimbabwe. Through basket-weaving and other projects, our women's cooperative groups earn money to help support themselves and care for over 1,000 orphans. 

The Zienzele Foundation began as the result of a chance meeting in Zimbabwe of two committed women — Prisca Nemapare and Nancy Clark.

Prisca grew up in rural Zimbabwe, living with her grandmother. She was a hard-working and determined student, and eventually she won scholarships to continue her education in the U.S.  After eleven years Prisca received her PhD in nutrition.  Shortly thereafter she became a professor of nutrition at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.  Nancy Clark grew up in Vermont, graduating from the University of Vermont with a degree in nursing. Even in nursing school she gravitated to community health and activism. Her entire career has focused on the health and well being of women and children through her work in pediatrics in NYC, and then in home care, first in Connecticut and then Vermont, developing programs to meet the needs of young families. It has been a natural transition to this same type of work in rural Zimbabwe.