The Tree of Life Trust Zimbabwe is a non-governmental organisation focusing on individual, family and community wellbeing and resilience building. We provide evidence-based, community-based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) approaches that help people living with trauma to reconnect with self, nature, family and community. We also provide effective Social Cohesion interventions that complement and strengthen other development and humanitarian interventions that increase resilience and collective agency and productive collaboration. Tree of Life (ToL) works in 8 of the 10 provinces across Zimbabwe, largely through a network of over 1000 seasoned Community-based Facilitators located in 26 districts. We have a team of 30 core staff and operate from 3 offices (in Harare, Bulawayo and Masvingo). ToL also collaborates with other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) nationally and internationally, by providing capacity building in Trauma Informed Care processes, as well as through the provision of Trauma Healing and Psychosocial Support services. In support of Zimbabwe's Vision 2030, ToL's interventions feed directly into the Zimbabwe National Development Strategy (NDS1) National Priorities of "Health and Wellbeing", "Governance", "Social Protection" and "Youth, Gender, Sports & Culture".
Our Vision: A healed and resilient cohesive society
Our Mission: To inspire peaceful communities through processes of wellbeing and social cohesion
Goal: Tree of Life will be recognised as an organisation that inspires relevant and scalable collective trauma healing processes that are evidence-based
Our Theory of Change: If trauma is dealt with through a group-based community-rooted process, including both victims and key people, then social-cohesion will increase, enabling reconciliation, peace and development to happen.
Gender Focus: To advance the empowerment of women and girls, all of Tree of Life's interventions have a strong Gender equity and inclusion focus to ensure that gender is mainstreamed in our partner communities. To date over 65% of Tree of Life's beneficiary base are females.
Between 2003 and May 2025, we have directly reached over 220,000 people (indirectly 1 million+) as follows:
- Facilitated over 2,000 Trauma Healing & Empowerment workshops for over 20,000 trauma survivors (65% being women)
- Trained over 1400 Community-based Facilitators (CFs) across 8 Provinces (over 50% being women) being 500+ Trauma Healing Facilitators and over 900 Psychoeducation and Psychological First Aid trainers able to conduct workshops and support their communities daily
- Conducted Psychoeducation and Singing to the Lions (STL) workshops for 700 Children
- Conducted Gender mainstreaming and Protection Mainstreaming capacity building to over 200 community volunteers
- Had direct collaborations with over 43 Civil Society Organisations
- Trained & Mentored 15 Regional Facilitators from Sub-Saharan Africa in Trauma Healing
- Provided psychoeducation workshops for over 35,000 people, including community leaders, youth, women, communities and NGO staff
- Facilitated thousands of referrals for further psychological support
- Worked with youth since 2014, reaching over 19,000 young people with effective youth programming, livelihoods development and entrepreneurial mindset training. Aside from our 2 core Youth programmes, over 30% of ToL's MHPSS beneficiary base have been youth.
- Reached 157,938 people with COVID-19 Psychosocial support and awareness during the Covid Pandemic
Been in consortiums led by: World Food Programme (WFP), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Childline, Island Hospice, Trocaire and Welthungerhilfe (WHH)
Collaborated with over 40 other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Faith Based Organisations (FBO's) in 36 Projects and received multi-million dollar funding from over 20 Donors, including direct USAID funding since 2012.
- Developed Training modules in: Psychosocial Awareness and Coping Skills (PACS); Psychosocial First Aid (PFA); Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Practices; Self-Care (SC); Covid-19, and Bereavement and Loss support; Training in Mentorship Skills for Mental Health
REPORTS AVAILABLE
USAID ToL Longitudinal Study Synopsis 2024.pdf
Tree of Life - WFP Zambuko End of Project Evaluation Report 2022 (Click Report or see end of this page for a link)
Tree of Life - WFP Zambuko Graphic Report_2022 (Click Report or see end of this page for a link)
https://Download Annual Report - 2023 at end of page
Download the Annual Report - 2022 (Click Report or see end of this page for a link)
Download the Annual Report - 2021 (Click Report or see end of this page for a link)
Download the Annual Report - 2020 (Click Report or see end of this page for a link)
Download the Annual Report - 2019 (Click Report or see end of this page for a link)
Download a healing workshop brochure ( Click Brochure or see end of this page for a link)
