BY STYLE REPORTER Local organisation Chedenga Foundation has started donating warm clothes to under privileged students at various schools across the country.
Part of the clothes, which include shoes, tracksuits and socks were mobilised through the foundation’s Donate a Pair of Shoes and Socks campaign which was launched in February.
Recently Chedenga Foundation with support from Pavcon Industries reached out to under-priviledged pupils at St Joseph Mupereki Primary School in Mhondoro-Ngezi, Mashonaland West as well as Tafadzwa Primary School in Headlands, Manicaland province.
“As for Mupereki Primary School, we went as former students alongside Pavcon Industries director Shelton Paza where we donated shoes, socks and tracksuits as a way to keep underprivileged pupils warm this winter,” Chedenga Foundation founder and director Ratidzo Eunice Chikowore (Eunice Tava) told Standard Style.
“I want to make it clear that the donation in Mhondoro was done by us as former students of Mupereki Primary school.
“I would like to thank Mr Paza who came along and also donated sports uniforms to the school and went on to introduce a sports tournament for schools around the area.”
Thirty-five underprivileged pupils at Mupereki Primary School benefitted.
Chikowore said Chedenga Foundation made donations to a school in Chiendambuya.
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“Last week we visited Tafadzwa Primary School in Chiendambuya and donated shoes, socks and tracksuits.
“These donations were made possible by our Donate a Pair of Shoes and Socks campaign that we launched in February.”
Chikowore said they were targeting a number of disadvantaged pupils at schools across the country.
She thanked those that have made the donation possible.
“My big thanks goes to everyone who rendered a hand in this Donate A Pair of Shoes and Socks campaign, which targets rural primary learners who are going to school barefooted during the winter season,” she said.
“I walked the same journey and have a clear understanding and feeling of bare footedly walking to school during the winter season while the cemented floor will be waiting for your feet until the sun heats up enough to warm the cold floors.”
Apart from assisting with warm clothes, Chedenga Foundation is assisting several children to attend school across the country through paying of fees.
The organisation is also running A Meal a Day programme, where the organisation makes tea for children on the streets every day.
Chikowore, an actress and film producer of note, registered Chedenga Foundation in February 2020 after she discovered that there was need to reach out to more children, especially those living on the streets.
Recently the organisation held a fundraising dinner as part of its resource mobilisation initiative.
However, Chikowore told Standard Style that a large chunk of her humanitarian work was self-funded.
