Author: CLUBHOUSE International

You will never forget your first time. The nerves of the first day of school. The feeling of apparent ‘wealth’ after your first pay-check. The stomach butterflies of your first love. The surreal experience of seeing your favorite band performing on stage for the first time. That feeling is decidedly unrivaled. Chances are we’ll go … Continue reading FAREWELL TO OUR THE FIRST “CLUBHOUSE ELEVEN”

By guest contributor Tawanda Mberi (As quoted from his recent posting on Facebook) My new hero is officially “Gunners” Mtisi, a combi driver from Mount Pleasant. Mr Mtisi picked up my phone a week and a half ago in Mount Pleasant. My battery was dead so out of the goodness of his heart he bought … Continue reading 14 MILLION MR. ‘GUNNERS’

 By Nyasha Matavire (Director, CLUBHOUSE Zimbabwe) On 19 July, 2013 at 10 am, Sheni Primary school was set alight with the CLUBHOUSE festival, an event that had taken months of planning and hard work. This day was just the culmination of various activities that had been happening for months leading to that day. Our own … Continue reading WALKING THE BRIDGE (PT 2): THE CLUBHOUSE FESTIVAL

The JDIA boys hand over some of the donated shoes to CLUBHOUSE representativesOn July 19, 2013, CLUBHOUSE International hosted the first ever CLUBHOUSE Festival in Dangamvura, Mutare. The event itself was a resounding success; we will talk a little more about that in our next installment. In the weeks leading up to the event, CLUBHOUSE partnered with Just … Continue reading BRIDGING THE GAP PT 1: HOW CLUBHOUSE FESTIVAL 2013 CAME TO BE

In line with its values of community service and youth development, CLUBHOUSE International has partnered up with American Youth Basketball team ‘Just Do it Again Hoops” (JDIA) to reach out to Zimbabwean children through sport and service. That partnership was recently featured in the Local Sports Journal. You can read the full article at the … Continue reading SPOTLIGHT: CLUBHOUSE INTERNATIONAL IN THIS WEEK’S ‘LOCAL SPORTS JOURNAL’

–By Musa Milupi (Executive Director- CLUBHOUSE USA) Think back to the days of our earlier existence on the places we call our motherland; our early childhood days. when we played outside with no shame and enjoyed every blessing that mother nature threw our way. As kids in our early teens, we went outside and made … Continue reading DREAMS OF A CHILD

pic by marfis75 (flickr) Ahh, ‘tis the season again. Across the world, a festive spirit engulfs the land. Whether it be under the snowy blankets presiding over North America, the blessed rains brim-filling the African landscape, or the relentless sun descended over Down Under; Christmas is indeed upon us. For many (religious or otherwise), Christmas provides a … Continue reading YES…THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS…

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members — the last, the least, the littlest.”~Cardinal Roger Mahony When the facebook posts drew the Newtown shooting to my attention and as I rushed to tune in to CNN, my heart-wrenching, subconscious gut reaction was ‘here we go again…” … Continue reading HOW WE FAILED NEWTOWN

A few months ago, we asked for your help in sending 4 or 5 deserving Zimbabwean Primary school children to school. Due to your overwhelming response, we were able to send not four, not five; but eleven kids!Our mission continues, and we are now collecting contributions for the January term! You can give your contribution … Continue reading NOW COLLECTING DONATIONS FOR THE JANUARY TERM!

picture by Ebby (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebby/4151174481/ December 1st is World AIDS Day. The commemoration, established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and what is now known as UNAIDS in 1988, bears testament to arguably the biggest global plague known to this generation.Hundreds of millions have been affected, billions of dollars spent and communities virtually destroyed by the … Continue reading MOMENT OF REFLECTIVE SILENCE (WORLD AIDS DAY REFLECTION)