Kariyangwe

Kariyangwe is a settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 60 km south of Binga village. The settlement grew up around the Kariyangwe Mission, the first to be set up by Spanish missionaries that arrived in the country in 1949. The people are Matonga. Originally people lived at the bank of the river Zambezi. When the Kariba Dam was built in the 1950s, people were resettled to the current region.

In the area of Kariynagwe there live about 10.000 people at the moment. It has a mission hospital operated by sisters without a permanent medical doctor available. The hospital has two off-grid photovoltaic systems to ensure basic electric supply. Education is provided by primary and secondary school. A more or less regular bus is connecting Kariynagwe to Binga and Hwange.

Since May 2018 there is no public electric power supply. About 2 km of copper cable were stolen and not replaced up to now.

The area has an irrigation scheme which gets its water supply from the Lungwalaala Dam.

Kariyangwe Mission Primary School

The mission has its own primary school. About 840 students are attending school at the moment. The school provides several class rooms, a library, a new kindergarten, school kitchen an accommodation for teaching staff.

The school and pupils are supported by an Austrian non-profit organisation called PFAU (http://www.pfau-verein.org/) since 2010. The organisation supports students in need with school fees and realises different projects. Since the start of the cooperation, a borehole, school garden, kindergarten building and school kitchen were built. Kindergarten and school kitchen were planned and built in full activity of pupils and teachers of technical high school Pinkafeld, Austria.

Also a nutrition program was established to provide a regular meal to all students. Therefore, local farmers are contracted to deliver there harvest to school. With this initiative farmers have a fix income every year and local economy gets strengthened. This nutrition program is generously supported by Red Charity.

One kilometer away from the primary school is a High school.

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