I guess at this point the first thing I should do is introduce myself.  My name as you would have guessed is Hilton I was born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe the place I love the most on this planet. I currently live in the United Kingdom, have a job and do pretty much everything anyone like me would do.

Enough about me, more about this Blog. The intention is through this forum to give you some insight into my role with WEZIMBABWE and our vision for Zimbabwe. If you browse through the pages of our website you will find a whole lot of information about us, how we started and why we exist. I will be trying with this blog to provide a little bit more of a personal perspective.

I am going to press on with this by paraphrasing something I heard in a movie once. A guy who was on a first date said something like "Promise me that you will have a second date with me if I mess up this one" - The second chance scenario. I am asking you to check this blog out a second time if we mess up once. If you have been less than impressed by WEZIMBABWE in your first encounter with us give us a second chance. Most importantly I would like to ask you all that if your first impression of Zimbabwe has been negative give our country and our people, be they black, white, coloured, Asian, Shona, Ndebele, Kalanga, Manyika, native and immigrant alike, give us a second chance. Give us a third chance and a fourth. I am sure you will find most of us will do the same for you.

So to business, there are some exciting things developing for WEZIM. Sinead who rather bravely mans or perhaps womans our I have just spent a hectic 3 days in London dashing around from meeting to meeting trying to build up some momentum for the organisation. We have met with an incredible group of people who we believe partnering with is going to help us take some major steps forward. More details will be published soon but from bringing in a very accomplished design company to engaging professional event management and moving Zimfest to becoming more environmentally friendly things are looking up.

In Zimbabwe Taurai Buyanga who represents us there has been working flat out to get our Connect Cafe project off the ground and to identify Children’s centres we can work with to deliver on our long standing wish to operate day centres in every province in Zimbabwe.

The challenges are great but our faith is strong and we still continue to believe.

We look forward to your continued support and to you getting involved more with us.

Peace and Luv always

Hilton J Mendelsohn