Support for a children's home in Karoi
May 2020 - Our contact person in Zimbabwe became aware of the Hurungwe Children's Home through a call to collect blankets. Around 50 babies, children and young people live in the children's home. Karoi is located in Mashonaland West about 200km from Harare.
Our contact person visited the children's home and spontaneously donated food to the home. Regular visits followed, during which it was found that the food would not be sufficient for the entire winter.
This was followed by a large donation from a board member, from which food items such as corn, cabbage and oil as well as essential hygiene items such as soap and feminine hygiene items could be bought. Our contact person delivered the purchases to the children's home with a truck. The children's home could thus be brought and helped over this winter.
At the beginning of 2021, the children's home was closed by the Karoi city administration, and the children were distributed to homes in neighboring cities. The reason was that the water supply could no longer be guaranteed.
The first individual grants
In May 2021 we decided to help three young people with their further training through individual funding.
There is Michell, 14 years old, an orphan, former resident of the children's home in Karoi. She now lives with her aunt and her family. She would like to become a doctor.
And Nomsa, 16 years old, is a half-orphan and lives in a very rural area in the Mola district. There are practically no teachers left in this area. Nomsa wants to become a nurse, so she has to leave home and go to school in a city to get the necessary qualifications.
And there is Japhet, 21 years old, a student at the Midland States University with the major in peace studies. His parents are very old and no longer employed, and his brothers have all been unemployed and without income since the lockdown. He was privately supported by a board member last year because, if he hadn't been able to pay his tuition fees, he would have lost the place he had just received.
