African Nonprofit Organisation | Zimbabwe Medical Project | Knoxville ZIMBABWE MEDICAL PROJECT HOME WORK ABOUT NEWS PROJECT UPDATES CONTACT More PARTNERING IN MEDICAL CARE EDUCATION IN AFRICA Helping unleash the power of communities to improve lives WORK Strivingtoeradicatepreventable curable blindness through cataract surgery vitamin A distribution Building sustainable health carethroughthe education training of physicians nurses Supporting the local community with urgent needs such as food water The Zimbabwe Medical Project partners physicians nurses educators from Zimbabwe South Africa and the USA in a healthcare campaign with a dual mandate to enable longterm sustainable expansion in quality healthcare. We are partnering in Zimbabwe to eradicate the preventable diseases that devastate families to help in the education of tomorrow39s healthcare leaders. Our volunteers began their clinical work in Zimbabwe in 2011 providing screening treatment for the epidemic of preventable blindness. While providing care for these patients it became clear that in order to truly achieve a meaningful longterm sustainable impact on healthcare we needed to expand our focus to include other clinical areas of urgent need.