The birth certificate project came into existence after realisation that most children, especially in rural areas do not have birth certificates. The birth certificate project seeks to raise awareness on the importance of birth certificates and the required documentation needed for birth registration.

Access to healthy and nutritious meals is a basic human right. Sadly, many people struggle with hunger and malnutrition and food insecurity. In addition, climate change and economic instability has continued to worsen food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Sethule Development Organisation provides supplementary feeding to some families in Umguza and Matobo district to low income families and to children who are suffering from malnutrition.

Teenage girls in our areas of operation lack feminine care education. The project seeks to bridge the gap through provision of menstrual care workshops that include lessons on general hygiene and cleanliness to the girl child and providing menstrual hygiene products to the teenage girls in need. In some instances, girls resort to absenteeism at school, this in turn negatively affects their academic performance. This project helps create an environment that enables teenage girls to live happy and fulfilled lives.

Sethule Development Organization runs a school programme called ‘Be the Change’. It is a peer education programme targeting young people in secondary schools. The aim of the programme is to create morally upright future citizens; we believe that the information we share on facts about life will positively challenge the youth in their teenage years to be socially responsible individuals in curbing issues of teenage pregnancy, school dropout, drug and substance abuse as well as gender-based violence among other contemporary issues affecting the youth.

Which is an acronym standing for Reject, Expose, All, Child, Trauma. This programme was introduced after realizing that most children are not forced but manipulated and tricked into sexual acts. Awareness raising through this programme empowers the children and enhances their capability to protect themselves by saying NO and exposing the abuser. REACT helps guard against gruesome effects of sexual abuse, creating a generation of healthy young stars who are the future of our country. It is a tool presented in a dramatic way to arm children with knowledge about child sexual abuse that might save them from being victimized. The aim is to create a safe environment free from harm and to offer access to interventions for abused children.

Through conducting needs assessment, Sethule Development Organization identified the most pressing needs in most rural based schools. Sethule Development Organization noticed how children in these rural based communities often attend lessons under tree shades. Even though some schools have classrooms, they are dilapidated thereby making it unsafe for students by exposing them to harsh weather conditions. Under this sub-pillar, the organization focuses on constructing infrastructure such as classrooms so as to improve access to safe educational facilities.

Sethule development organization noticed that children and the elderly in rural based communities experience food shortages. Hence, under this sub-pillar, the organization promotes initiatives such as community gardening to improve food security and economic empowerment. The programme feeds school children hence helping vulnerable families manage to feed their children through the local garden that provides vegetables.

Due to the far reaching levels of unemployment in Zimbabwe, people now rely on informal trading as a source of income. Sethule Development Organization, through its Livelihoods pillar, aims to restore and reinforce community and household capabilities by making sure that it provides assets, activities and capabilities that ensure that local people secure a sustainable means of living. Sethule Development Organization under this livelihoods pillar, helps children, women, youths and men to realize their capabilities through empowering them with skills such as sewing, baking, basket making and beadwork.