ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT
Thursday, 04 September 2008 20:46
"COME here as a visitor and not as a spy," reads a warning sign on a rusty metal stuck on to a wooden gate at a home in Nyatondo Village in the Eastern Highlands district of Nyanga.
For a moment one hesitates to enter the homestead, not sure how they would be identified — as a visitor or as a spy.
A narrow path leads to a tiny kitchen hut that smells of fresh cow dung that has just been used as floor polish. Beside the kitchen is a neat pile of firewood. Opposite the kitchen is a two-roomed hut with a small shining verandah.
Everything at the homestead appears to be in order and one would expect to find an adult at the home. But that is not the case.
Running into the yard from the garden is a small boy dressed in a torn navy blue pair of jean shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt in the chilly weather. The boy is 14-year old Tichaona Mubako, an orphan in Ward 19 in the Sedze area of Nyanga, who has been staying by himself since the age of 12.
A Form 2 pupil at Nyajeza Secondary School, Tichaona began looking after himself after his parents succumbed to HIV and Aids-related diseases. Living by himself, doing the house chores, tilling the fields, maintaining the garden and protecting his late parents’ property has become a normal way of life for Tichaona.
"Sometimes I am scared of staying alone," Tichaona said. "When night falls, I get my friend who stays close by to come and spend the night with me, but most of the times I am by myself."
His mother passed away in 2004 while his father died two years later.
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
BA, UNICEF out to curb mother-to-child HIV infection
DAMAS MAKANGALE
Daily News; Thursday,September 04, 2008 @20:02
BRITISH Airways (BA) and the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) are jointly implementing a programme titled; “Change for good”which aims at preventing mother to child transmission of HIV/Aids in 55 countries around the world, including Tanzania.
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Daily News; Thursday,September 04, 2008 @20:02
BRITISH Airways (BA) and the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) are jointly implementing a programme titled; “Change for good”which aims at preventing mother to child transmission of HIV/Aids in 55 countries around the world, including Tanzania.
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Liberian-American Couple Assist Orphans
By T. Michael Johnny
--More Aids Distribution For Deprived Citizens
A Liberian-American Couple based in Brooklyn, United States of America has continued the donation of several bags of rice and other humanitarian supplies to several orphanages and old folk homes in Monrovia and its environs.
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--More Aids Distribution For Deprived Citizens
A Liberian-American Couple based in Brooklyn, United States of America has continued the donation of several bags of rice and other humanitarian supplies to several orphanages and old folk homes in Monrovia and its environs.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
GO! STORIES | "Sibajane"
A Place, A Story, A Journey
September 3, 2008
by Scott A. Nordstrom
It was Sunday, March 10, 2008, and we had just had finished up a great time at the local church in Silembe. I was truly blessed to have shared with the people there, and they seemed so happy to have us visit. We were wrapping up our time in the bush, as we would depart the next day for Livingstone.
Word came to us from the Head Man that his relatives at a nearby village would like to see us about a child that they could no longer care for. The orphanage was almost ready, but we hadn’t started receiving children as of yet. Elizabeth would be our first house-mom, and she was prepared to start living at the orphanage when we needed her to. Several of us decided to make the trip that afternoon to meet this child who might come to live at House of Faith Orphanage.
Of course it was a bumpy ride to their location, but many us were so tense with expectation we hardly noticed. What would this child be like? A boy or a girl? I always thought our first child would be a girl; maybe because of our baby Faith of 2005 for some reason.
As the vehicle pulled up to the little compound, most of family was gathered around in an outside area. We met his caretakers, and we were then able to meet Sibajane. What a beautiful boy! He was a little shy, and I think a little taken back by all the attention. We talked with him and his family about his situation. The family was encouraged that he would be well taken care of, and that he would be living in the area.
Jo Anne, our orphanage Director, went through a myriad of questions with the family. I could tell that she is a collector of data. She is perfect for our operation in Zambia, and I was impressed with the way she went about putting the family at ease, but also in the way that she was able to gain their cooperation and engage them in the conversation about Sibajane. I was also observing the boy wondering what was going through his mind. Was he sad about potentially leaving his family? What of his older brother? Was he close with him? What kind of life would we be taking him from, and how would his new life be different?
Before leaving we took some snaps of Sibajane and offered some hugs. I felt sad to know that it would be so long before I would see him again, but he’d be in good hands with Elizabeth and Jo Anne at the orphanage.
FACT: Sibajane was approximately 7 years old when he moved into the House of Faith Orphanage on March 14, 2008. Sibajane’s mother and father are both deceased. Sibajane’s name means, “I have not found him.” We believe that the meaning of his name is that his father did not see him before he died and he did not see the father. He has one older brother who is fourteen years old, who tends cattle for the family and goes to the same school as Sibajane. Sibajane lived one and a half hours walking-distance from school, which caused him to miss a lot of school. Now he is attending school regularly, also being taught numbers and ABC’s at home.
As of September 3, 2008, we now host 18 children at House of Faith Orphanage, and many remain in the need of sponsors. For more information see www.globalorphanrelief.org.
September 3, 2008
by Scott A. Nordstrom
It was Sunday, March 10, 2008, and we had just had finished up a great time at the local church in Silembe. I was truly blessed to have shared with the people there, and they seemed so happy to have us visit. We were wrapping up our time in the bush, as we would depart the next day for Livingstone.
Word came to us from the Head Man that his relatives at a nearby village would like to see us about a child that they could no longer care for. The orphanage was almost ready, but we hadn’t started receiving children as of yet. Elizabeth would be our first house-mom, and she was prepared to start living at the orphanage when we needed her to. Several of us decided to make the trip that afternoon to meet this child who might come to live at House of Faith Orphanage.
Of course it was a bumpy ride to their location, but many us were so tense with expectation we hardly noticed. What would this child be like? A boy or a girl? I always thought our first child would be a girl; maybe because of our baby Faith of 2005 for some reason.
As the vehicle pulled up to the little compound, most of family was gathered around in an outside area. We met his caretakers, and we were then able to meet Sibajane. What a beautiful boy! He was a little shy, and I think a little taken back by all the attention. We talked with him and his family about his situation. The family was encouraged that he would be well taken care of, and that he would be living in the area.
Jo Anne, our orphanage Director, went through a myriad of questions with the family. I could tell that she is a collector of data. She is perfect for our operation in Zambia, and I was impressed with the way she went about putting the family at ease, but also in the way that she was able to gain their cooperation and engage them in the conversation about Sibajane. I was also observing the boy wondering what was going through his mind. Was he sad about potentially leaving his family? What of his older brother? Was he close with him? What kind of life would we be taking him from, and how would his new life be different?
Before leaving we took some snaps of Sibajane and offered some hugs. I felt sad to know that it would be so long before I would see him again, but he’d be in good hands with Elizabeth and Jo Anne at the orphanage.
FACT: Sibajane was approximately 7 years old when he moved into the House of Faith Orphanage on March 14, 2008. Sibajane’s mother and father are both deceased. Sibajane’s name means, “I have not found him.” We believe that the meaning of his name is that his father did not see him before he died and he did not see the father. He has one older brother who is fourteen years old, who tends cattle for the family and goes to the same school as Sibajane. Sibajane lived one and a half hours walking-distance from school, which caused him to miss a lot of school. Now he is attending school regularly, also being taught numbers and ABC’s at home.
As of September 3, 2008, we now host 18 children at House of Faith Orphanage, and many remain in the need of sponsors. For more information see www.globalorphanrelief.org.
Zambian President Mwanawasa buried
Wed 3 Sep 2008, 14:50 GMT
By Shapi Shacinda
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Thousands of Zambians mourned late President Levy Mwanawasa on Wednesday as he was buried in the southern African country that he had made a rare success story on the continent.
Regional leaders also attended the ceremony for Mwanawasa, who pleased donors and investors with financial reforms in the copper producing state and took a stronger stand on the crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe than many of his counterparts.
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By Shapi Shacinda
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Thousands of Zambians mourned late President Levy Mwanawasa on Wednesday as he was buried in the southern African country that he had made a rare success story on the continent.
Regional leaders also attended the ceremony for Mwanawasa, who pleased donors and investors with financial reforms in the copper producing state and took a stronger stand on the crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe than many of his counterparts.
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Chiropractor helps ‘orphans and widows’
Heather Mays - Thu, Sep, 4, 2008
A local chiropractor hopes to touch the world through his ministry, Matthew 10.
Dr. Pete Sulack, owner of Exodus Chiropractic and pictured right, founded Matthew 10 in 2004.
The ministry is based on Matthew Chapter 10, which speaks of Christians’ obligations to extend love and care in return for God’s love.
“There’s a key phrase that says ‘as freely as you receive, freely give,’ and it was just an opportunity [with] children’s homes for tsunami victims in India,” Sulack said.
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A local chiropractor hopes to touch the world through his ministry, Matthew 10.
Dr. Pete Sulack, owner of Exodus Chiropractic and pictured right, founded Matthew 10 in 2004.
The ministry is based on Matthew Chapter 10, which speaks of Christians’ obligations to extend love and care in return for God’s love.
“There’s a key phrase that says ‘as freely as you receive, freely give,’ and it was just an opportunity [with] children’s homes for tsunami victims in India,” Sulack said.
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Orphans Walk 60km to Beg for Food
MASVINGO, September 3 2008 - Two orphaned brothers from Zaka district recently walked sixty kilometers to get to their next of kin where they intended to beg for food, as isolated cases of starvation begin to mushroom in the province, hard hit by acute food shortages for the past six years.
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