Tsitsi Mutseta, Founder, Director & Former President of CAV, with us still in loving memory 1967-2013
 Professor Mark Wheeler, Director & President of Compassion for African Villages 
Calvin Brewer, Treasurer & Director of Compassion for African Villages
Lucia Mutseta, Board Member for Compassion for African Villages, and mother of Tsitsi, the founder (photo by Jolyne Harris, with PhotOptions)
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 Idzai Mubaiwa,
Vice President of Compassion for African Villages 
Zvidzai Ushe, Civil Engineer & Board Member of Compassion for African Villages
Alexandra Hart, Secretary & Director of Compassion for African Villages
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Compassion for African Villages was started in June of 2007 by Ms. Tsitsi Mutseta, then a full-time student at San Diego State University majoring in Public Health. At the time, Tsitsi (whose name means 'compassion' or 'mercy' in Shona, her native tongue) worked three jobs to raise money for orphans in her home village of Rundogo, Zimbabwe.
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When Tsitsi left the village of Rundogo for the USA in 1999, her village was sustaining itself through subsistence agriculture, like many rural African villages. The village had been devastated by disease--HIV/AIDS, cholera, and malaria. The villagers had asked Tsitsi for help. She was the only one who had ever traveled to America.
Tsitsi worked three jobs, sending money to keep the orphans in school, to clothe them, to feed them, and even to buy them coffins. After 5 years, almost half of Rundogo had vanished, leaving no one between the ages of 18-40. All who are are orphans and the elderly who take care of them.
In 2007, tragedy struck closer to San Diego--Tsitsi was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. Ever courageous and hopeful, she decided to start the all volunteer, non-profit charitable organization Compassion for African Villages in order to educate others about the problems faced by impoverished villagers in Africa and to raise funds to help solve those problems.
Since then, Tsitsi and other members of the San Diego community have banded together to fight hard for Rundogo and other villages in Africa. A chapter of the organization was started at San Diego State University. The SDSU students work closely with other members of the community to raise awareness about poverty and social injustice in Africa, to raise money for relief efforts in African villages, and to support Tsitsi.
We welcome anyone willing to help us. There is always something to do for the orphans and villagers. We hope some day to become successful enough to spread our mission throughout Africa.
DONATE NOW!
DONATE NOW!
When Tsitsi left the village of Rundogo for the USA in 1999, her village was sustaining itself through subsistence agriculture, like many rural African villages. The village had been devastated by disease--HIV/AIDS, cholera, and malaria. The villagers had asked Tsitsi for help. She was the only one who had ever traveled to America.
Tsitsi worked three jobs, sending money to keep the orphans in school, to clothe them, to feed them, and even to buy them coffins. After 5 years, almost half of Rundogo had vanished, leaving no one between the ages of 18-40. All who are are orphans and the elderly who take care of them.
In 2007, tragedy struck closer to San Diego--Tsitsi was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. Ever courageous and hopeful, she decided to start the all volunteer, non-profit charitable organization Compassion for African Villages in order to educate others about the problems faced by impoverished villagers in Africa and to raise funds to help solve those problems.
Since then, Tsitsi and other members of the San Diego community have banded together to fight hard for Rundogo and other villages in Africa. A chapter of the organization was started at San Diego State University. The SDSU students work closely with other members of the community to raise awareness about poverty and social injustice in Africa, to raise money for relief efforts in African villages, and to support Tsitsi.
We welcome anyone willing to help us. There is always something to do for the orphans and villagers. We hope some day to become successful enough to spread our mission throughout Africa.
DONATE NOW!
