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Visit our online gallery to view and purchase Weya artwork!
201 ZAP Calendars are in! For $15, thirteen quality prints of our favorite Weya art from this year can be yours, in calendar form. Please click here to purchase your calendar today, or click on the photos of the art below to purchase original artwork from our online gallery.
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ZAP’s Mission
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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.