• To groom a child who can stand on his/her own two feet in confidence despite colour, race, creed, status, abilities or disabilities.
• To train children in leadership skills.
• To empower children with skills that will enable them to survive in the harshest of situations or conditions without compromising their integrity.
• To move closer to promoting self-sufficiency and sustainability through projects in clubs.
• To ensure all children are in school and retention and completion are supervised or monitored.
• To source for funds to support children's activities as individuals or as groups.
  

In its initiative to cater for all aspects of the child, CHIPAWO endeavoured and branched further into areas of the child that were not being dealt with in detail. CHIPAWO is predominantly a performances oriented organisation, thus the need for an organisation that will give content, context and depth into child related issues within the ambit of development hence the birth of Mntwana. The organisation was then born in November 2005.

Mntwana is a Bantu word for child. The emphasis therefore is on children, how the current development realities affect them, and the alternatives to that effect.

Mntwana is an organisation that seeks to establish a humane future for humanity through creating opportunities for child-to-child interaction and support. The organisation seeks to build the social capital of communities through encouraging children to support each other. MntWana focuses on the rural disadvantaged children in the marginal areas of Zimbabwe whose stories are always excluded from national debate and policy.

Thus MntWANA has four portfolios Gender, HIV and AIDS, Poverty Reduction and Child Welfare.

Advocacy; Children/Youth; Civil Activism; Gender; HIV/AIDS; Orphan Programmes; Peer Education; Poverty Alleviation; Rural Development