Our Story
The Nyadire Connection (TNC), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a faith-based, non-profit organization that seeks to support and sustain the Nyadire United Methodist Mission in northeastern rural Zimbabwe, Africa. The Nyadire Mission offers a hospital, nursing school, school system (preschool through high school), orphanage, teachers’ college, farm, and many other services to the surrounding community.
TNC was founded in 2006 after a Volunteer in Mission team of 18 Pittsburghers traveled to Nyadire for three weeks. The team provided medical and pastoral care, conducted a Vacation Bible School for primary school children, and converted a dormitory into individual rooms at the Nurses’ Training School. After returning from the mission trip, many felt that support to Nyadire should be ongoing and more in depth.
The team hoped to develop a partnership and facilitate relationships between friends in the U.S. and Nyadire. The team felt TNC could interpret needs as expressed by Zimbabweans in Nyadire, identify needs in additional areas and provide support.
Our Goals
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TNC was founded in 2006 after a Volunteer in Mission team of 18 Pittsburghers traveled to Nyadire for three weeks. The team provided medical and pastoral care, conducted a Vacation Bible School for primary school children, and converted a dormitory into individual rooms at the Nurses’ Training School. After returning from the mission trip, many felt that support to Nyadire should be ongoing and more in depth.
The team hoped to develop a partnership and facilitate relationships between friends in the U.S. and Nyadire. The team felt TNC could interpret needs as expressed by Zimbabweans in Nyadire, identify needs in additional areas and provide support.
Our Goals
- To enter into a long term committed relationship, not a one time “project” with Zimbabwean people. We will learn from each other in order to truly help.
- To enable connections - person to person, church to church, school to school, hospital to hospital.
- To be a partner, dedicated to enabling Nyadire to assist the people of Zimbabwe while enriching the spiritual lives of the people and churches of Western Pennsylvania.
- To focus geographically on Nyadire.
- To support Nyadire’s priorities, not our ideas. Nyadire & the Zimbabwe United Methodist Church lead and TNC enables.
- To provide feedback to keep our supporters informed.
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