Located in rural Chiredzi, EFT operates a food and medical outreach, tertiary scholarships for community youth, and a micro-agricultural program which increases localized crop yielding by 300%.

EFT was originally established to provide educational scholarships for the children of a local gardener, Elias Sithole. When Eric and Scott of the Elias Fund went to Zimbabwe in 2005 the seeds were sown for the creation of a full-fledge foundation. The Ballance and Davy families have been an integral part of the Foundation since it’s inception, with Mr. Alex Ndoda a welcome addition bringing a wealth of wisdom in dealing with human and cultural issues. The Foundation operates a food and medical outreach for the blind community, tertiary scholarships for community youth, and a micro-agricultural program that increases localized crop yielding by 300%.

The hard-working members of EFT are at the forefront of crisis relief for Zimbabwe’s forgotten rural population, and as life-long community members of Chiredzi, their efforts reflect the creative possibilities inherently present to indigenous responses to poverty.