Established in 1962 by Winnifred Thomas, Nurse Midwife, alongside the Arnoldine Mission community, the Arnoldine Clinic had its origins in a clubhouse initially provided by women, later reinforced with a permanent building by the supportive men in the community. Over the years, the clinic has been instrumental in delivering numerous […]
Living Beyond Hope’s top 10 accomplishments in the last 9-years at Arnoldine Mission. Thanks to our donors!
The initiatives undertaken at Arnoldine Mission and the secondary school since 2014 are a result of Farai Rukunda, an Arnoldine native, and Norman Thomas, a former missionary at Arnoldine Mission, visiting the village in August of 2014. Originally intending to visit family, Farai Rukunda, president and founder of Living Beyond […]
Health Time Bomb at Arnoldine schools
A health time bomb is ticking at Arnoldine schools as they have been operating without water since the beginning of the school term, thereby forcing teachers to travel several miles in search of precious liquid in villages. Arnoldine village comprises of clinic, primary and secondary school. A transformer that serviced […]
Challenges created by the Pandemic
Progress at our secondary school has been affected to a greater extend due to Covid 19: 1) Students dropped school due to early marriages, lack of school fees, drug abuse and child labor during lockdowns. 2) Building developments have been delayed due to certain reasons. Some companies were closed. We […]
What an Accomplishment!
Living Beyond Hope partnered with Ms. Mwaonera Chiremba in 2015, when Arnoldine was just getting started. Ms. Chiremba has done a very good job coordinating activities at the Arnoldine Secondary School to build it up to where it is today. When she started in 2013 at Arnoldine with just 7 […]
Arnoldine Secondary School Opens a New Classroom Block
Congratulations to Arnoldine Secondary School for their new building, which opened in September 2021 thanks to a collaboration by the community, Living Beyond Hope, and Chabadza organization. The addition of this second classroom building contributes towards their eligibility to be an independent secondary school. The community of Arnoldine are never […]
How you can help
The population at Arnoldine Secondary School has increased since we started our partnership in 2015. The number of teachers has increased from 5 to 9, and the number of students has increased from 7 to approximately 300. This means that the School needs more classroom space, more clean water-storage tanks, […]
Students Update!!
The school has been closed from March 2020 to the beginning of September. The national examinations which were scheduled to begin in November were pushed back to begin in December even though the students were not prepared. Their last examinations will be done in early February of 2021. Of the […]
Teachers in desperate need for housing!!
This old building is about 0.5 miles from the secondary school site. It belongs to the Arnoldine community. In the early years the secondary school used it as a classroom until they moved to the new site at Arnoldine for the school campus. As teachers scramble for accommodation, they came […]
Living Beyond Hope – Zimbabwe visits Arnoldine Secondary school on December 6th, 2020
Living Beyond Hope-Zimbabwe board members, Mr. Brian Mbwizhu, Dr. Rosalie Katsande, and Mr. Aaron Rashama visited the Arnoldine Secondary School to get an update on the school projects in progress. They were received by Ms. Chiremba (school principal) and her staff. During their visit they were given a progress report […]