The purpose

How can one delete hunger? How is dignity renewed in a community raped by years of poverty and decline? How can students, teachers, farmers, hospital/banking professionals, general-help workers & the forgotten human, regain hope and trust in a system that has deteriorated? How can men and women restore love in a place where love no longer seems to be the bottom-line? How can children receive love and learn to see when to give it if the light at the end of the tunnel is too dim? How can the elderly pass on their wisdom when survival is all the youth are striving for? Is there a way to pass on nourishment? Is there a route that leads to the rejuvenation of the depth of lost smiles? Is there an avenue via which grace can be put back in place? Where can one find healing for a community in decay? As if ordained to; I have suffered these many burning questions in relation to the places my life has taken me.
My name is Moleen Madziva. I am 32 and grew up in Macheke, Zimbabwe {i promise to share the tale of my Zimbabwean upbringing sometime!}. Since leaving Zimbabwe to attend College in the USA in 1995, I have grown closer to my search of “home”. Sometimes it takes leaving the village you were bred in, to begin the journey of that pursuit. It has always resonated with me that home is where the heart is, and as the years go by; my search for home has become more elaborate, more beautiful. I must say I am privileged to know my spirit and to have access to my spirit medium --- one of the core reasons why I feel that with all the evil actions of slavery and colonization that has stung my African People; the one thing that is still undeniably present and at work is the undeniably undying spirit {I suppose this will be another chapter to share}. So I can go a step further and say that I know the home that my soul provides me and I love it. I like that there’s no searching out there for a saving grace because I know myself to be uniquely complete within. But like most compassionate people, I also associate my home with the purpose of my life. What moves me and what do I love – and is this linked in any way to the purpose of my life? Why did birth not skip me? Why did God pick me for this specific distinction? Am I irreplaceable and if so – why? What is my life’s purpose?
I could suppose it’s partly so I can fill in these shoes as an intelligent scientist, who enjoys celebration, fashion and a good laugh. It also very well could be that I needed to be here to learn life, master it and sweetly challenge my teachers as I wade through waters deep and shallow. I can see that my purpose is to acknowledge my family in a way that today’s child is unaware of? As I turned 30, having spent some years watching the degeneration of the people that raised me in Zimbabwe, I decided to pencil in “find answers to some of the african riddles” as another very potential purpose of my life.
From that point, I have lived my life with a vast keenness of holistic community development. I am engulfing all I can take on how it could be that a community such as that I grew up in; can receive relevant support to a point that it can support itself. A technique that is adequate and efficient to grow sustainability. Sustainability for the community as a whole and eradicating the aspect of capitalism that favors hierarchical financial success for only a select 5%. Sustainability in terms of access to the education, use and maintenance of sustainable resources.
And that is how the idea of the Macheke Sustainability Project was born. I do not know of any such program in Zimbabwe and some of its unique attributes may make it one of a very few in the world. I will use this site to share information of my vision and the vision of those that are already on board to support me. I hope this will make Macheke visible so as to inspire others to awaken their local communities. I hope this will make this otherwise invisible community gain the attention of those with a hand/heart to help. I intend to provide more details about the project and my grandest wish is that this evolves into a project of life and the purpose of it all!