Protecting Africa’s Youth: The Hidden Cost of Western Aid in Zimbabwe

Monica Gatsi and Veronica Chawasemerwa, long-time HLI missionaries working in Zimbabwe, join us to discuss their mission to bring chastity education to youth in rural villages.

Zimbabwe’s youth are increasingly targeted by well-funded Western organizations that offer humanitarian aid—such as textbooks, clean water, and food—while simultaneously promoting contraception, abortion, and anti-family ideologies. We discuss how poverty forces schools to accept aid with strings attached, even when teachers and parents recognize the moral harm.

Monica and Veronica share firsthand stories of walking miles (sometimes wading through rivers) to reach remote villages. Through faith-based, science-grounded education, they are helping students rediscover the sanctity of life, African cultural values, and the dignity of the human person from conception to natural death.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why chastity education is urgently needed in Zimbabwe
• How foreign aid is often tied to abortion and contraception messaging
• What students actually believe about abortion and fetal development
• How faith, science, and African culture work together to defend life
• Stories of crisis pregnancy support and lives saved through compassion
• Why teachers are asking for chastity education every week

This conversation is a moving look at what it means to live a Culture of Life in some of the world’s most underserved communities—and how your support can make a global impact.

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