By Desire Tshuma.
(News of aThe South) – The Faith ,Love and Hope Community Trust is an organization that deals with the needs of the visually impaired and physically handicapped children and adults. The organisation was formed in May 2015 in Dzivarasekwa three.
With the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the globe , it has caused a lot of sufferings and has caused wide-wide economic detoriation especially in the third world nations. With the already shrinking Zimbabwe economy , the disabled people has been hard hit as over ninety percent of the economy is on the informal sector.
‘We have 200 people with disabilities whom we assist as an organization , we used to get assistance from the donors and some well wishers but these donors have stopped due to the closure of the borders , we have all age groups including the elderly who are over seventy years ,who are facing serious starvation which has been worsened by the lockdown as some of our members survive by vending “said Terrence Nyamazana the Founder and Director of the organization.
He went on and expressed gratitude to the government through the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare for giving some but not all of their members each 180RTGS as monthly assistance .”We are grateful to the monetary assistance that some of our members has received but the challenge now is where to purchase the government subsidized meal mealie as we can’t manage to access them due to the fact of our disability ,we can’t manage to stand that pressure in scrambling in queues” elaborated Terrance.
The organization founder Mr Terrence is appealing to the government to make specal arrangement so that they can buy directly to the Grain Marketing Board the government subsidised meal mealie .”Today one lady from the local church , Mrs Kagande donated a 10kg meal mealie,bottle of peanut butter ,Colgate and 100 RTGS which I used it to buy cooking , chunks and salt then we decided to donate to Samuel Mupesa who is visually impaired and has always been crying about starvation “said Terrence.
Currently in Zimbabwe cases of COVID-19 are at forty six while there are eighteen recoveries and four death .The President Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa last week announced the indefinite lockdown so as the government can manage to fight the Coronavirus pandemic although he relaxed some lockdown conditions.
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