Look at this land ! Young Africa has been offered its own piece 'Out of Africa' in Zimbabwe, between Marondera and Macheka. 250 Hectares of beautiful fertile soil, an indigionous forest, a river, balancing rocks and even a railway line. We're not going to drool over Robert Redford there, but make it a productive agricultural skills training centre for young people. Teaching them to make the most of the stunning and nurturing land they have. To be continued...

Saturday the 5th of June 2010 was the day the Young Africa Sports Festival was held. 695 young people were registered in different teams that came to participate in Soccer, Volleyball, Basketball, Netball and Chess.  The theme for the 2010 festival was “Keeping Young People Busy Through Sport”. By lunchtime the crowd of participants and spectators had swelled to more than 2000 people. The guest of honor for the day was the National Soccer Men’s Coach , Norman Mapeza who spared an hour out of his busy schedule of preparing the national team for an international match the next day to come and speak to the young  people about making it as an international sports person.  This meant a lot to the young people because Norman grew up in Chitungwiza playing soccer on the very field they were competing on but he went on to play soccer outside the country and was now a national coach.  The day was made successful by the donations of bread from Bakers Inn through Mr G Munyanyi, donations of drinks form Delta Corporation through Mr J Mutizwa and the donation of T shirts form YA International which were part of the prizes for the young people.

At the end of 2009 Serve Ireland and CSC from the USA assisted Young Africa with the purchase of computers, which has assisted in the revival of the Internet Café. The computer department has also been revamped with new computers that have resulted in an increase in the enrollment for courses. The administration department has also benefited with new computers to assist them in the day to day running of the center.

The catering department which was started in July 2009 has received a grant from the US Embassy in Harare, which will cover the cost of extending the eating area, separating the kitchen from the eating area, construction of a storeroom and more equipment for the students. Serve Ireland has also assisted with a grant for equipment.  The developments are in progress and completion is expected by June 2010.  These improvements will assist us in our application to offer National exams in 2011 for catering students