Visit our online gallery to view and purchase Weya artwork!
ZAP’s Mission
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Embroiderers working on binding
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Grace Chaka with her daughter Sibongile
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Jane Mutsakanyi embroidering
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Milcah Mashonganyika’s house
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Mukute Primary teacher Mr. Yapara & family
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On the road to Weya
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Promise Kayne drawing with soap
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Roadside scene on the way to Weya
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Rubbish
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Sarudzai Shonge sewing applique
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Tendai Bengezhano with Wayne and Wendy
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Tendai Bengezhano with incomplete applique
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Empty grocery store shelves, 2008
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To Harare in the ZAP landcruiser
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Sadza painter Tima Shonge’s homestead
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Artists in the boardpainting workshop
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Artists working hard in the boardpainting workshop
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Boardpainter Charity Maramba & family
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Boardpainter Emily Mudzingwa’s son
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Chipo Mugadza in her kitchen
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Dick and John with Harare-based artists
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Dick and Heather with artist Pamidzai Rinomhota
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Dinner cooking in Elizabeth Shonge’s kitchen
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Francisca Chekacheke Nyazorwe with grandchild
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Francisca Chekacheke Nyazorwe embroidering
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Grace Chaka’s children
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Heather greeting Chief Chiendambuya
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Heather’s first journey to Weya
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Maziveni Mapuranga making applique figures
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Maziveni Mapuranga with her newborn son
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Painter Gallet Mungure with his first-born child
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Rushing scotch cart
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Sadza painter Mary Kaundo & family
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Tawanda in the driveway to Roselyn Mungure’s homestead
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Traditional healer Lainah Pozo
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Sunset from Roselyn Mungure’s homestead
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Violet Chitongo learning to paint left handed
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Walking in Chakwenya Village
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ZAP donated blood-pressure cuffs
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ZAP works directly with women artists (and a few men) from rural Weya in Eastern Zimbabwe to help them become more economically self-sufficient. Through the sale of their art, education, health care assistance and special projects, we support their artistry and accomplishments. Women of Weya are subsistence farmers, mothers, and householders as well as artists. Most women live on their own, providing for families. Some are widowed, others are single heads of households, since throughout Zimbabwe men leave the rural areas to seek work in cities.
Women’s income from agriculture is unpredictable and limited. Sales of their art help women afford food, clothing, school fees, medicines, transport, seeds and fertilizer. Since the market for Weya art in Zimbabwe is extremely limited, sales in the U.S. are critical. ZAP pays much more than any other buyer, delivering cash at the time of purchase. Equally important, ZAP provides health care to all of the artists, including care to artists who are HIV positive.
Videos of ZAP on the Website!
Hear Dick Adams, ZAP’s Founder, and Heather MacKenzie, Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator, speak a little bit about ZAP in two new short films courtesy of Mercury Productions. You can also watch our short and compelling documentary, With These Ten Fingers, where the artists of Weya speak about their lives and their art in their own words. Please view all films here.
