CheveCheve Community Trust - reaching the needy
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Fifty years of this life prepared me to give more!
As I turn fifty years old, it is the young brain in me that is calling me to action and to do more for communities. Fifty years of this life has taught me vanity of vanities; all is vanity. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. There is no new thing under the sun. So, it’s time to give more of my time, talent, and treasures and do more of the things I enjoy doing. I love to help. I love to help where I can, not just for medical needs, but all the psychosocial and material needs for vulnerable populations. My work will show you the advocating I have done for people living with HIV (PLHIV), especially those that are migrants and children in vulnerable circumstances. I got support from colleagues and friends to build a community clinic in my home village in Zimbabwe under CheveCheve Community Trust (https://chevechevezim.com/) and we do what we can to support the community.
In this season, CheveCheve Community Trust will be expanding and doing more of what we do:
- Increase the number of children supported through school fees payment from 12 to 50. We currently pay for 12 students, and we do not want to turn away any children anymore.
- Support students who excel in school and going to tertiary institutes e.g., university or other schools.
- Expand to assist the families of children in need with groceries, especially the ones we support in school. Focus on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and people living with HIV (PLHIV)
- Increase the Christmas hampers from 20 to 50. Every Christmas we provide food hampers to the elderly and other needy families in our community. We would like to increase the number supported and the contents of the food humpers.
- Empower girls/young women in their educational journey by ensuring they have access to essential sanitary products such as pads. We would like to partner with the school’s guidance and counseling teachers to provide a supply of sanitary pads to be always available for schoolgirls. A supply will be kept at CheveCheve Community Clinic for any girl child in need.
- Monthly clinics by a paid nurse and doctor to support CheveCheve Community Clinic. That also means the pharmacy supplies must be increased.
- To support people living with HIV. They access antiretroviral therapy from government clinics and are sometimes in need of other medication and prophylaxis.
- An exceptional child, Muku, is currently living with a disability and requires enrolment in a specialist school in Zimbabwe. Muku is very intelligent, and he would benefit from a specialist school which costs USD600 per quarter.
How can you help?
- If you can, support me financially. I am targeting to raise at least $50 000 to support the work I do in 2024. I have set up a go fund me and the link is here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/chevecheve-community-trust-reaching-the-needy?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet
- If you can, support us with sanitary pads delivered directly to CheveCheve
- If you can, adopt a family to support. Groceries of up to USD50 once off will go a long way.
- If you can, adopt a school child to support. We pay USD15 and USD20 per term per child in primary and secondary school respectively.
- If you can, support a family with a food and blanket hamper this Xmas 2023. The estimated cost is USD30
Waiting area for CheveCheve Community Clinic
The most important person to ever grace the CheveCheve Community Clinic, gogo Marukutira (centre). May her soul rest in peace.
Coorganizadores (4)
Tafireyi (TC) Marukutira
Organizador
Devon Meadows, VIC
Priscilla Marukutira
Coorganizador
Charles Marukutira
Coorganizador
Shaniqua Marukutira
Coorganizador