
By Tendai Chisiri
A teacher with a study group Bonface Damba and a class of students from his primary school study group in Glen-Norah donated an assortment of grocery items and old clothes to Chinyaradzo Children’s home during a tour Sunday.
Mr Bonface Damba said it was during a class study on how important children are as some get cared by charity organisations that they thought to have the tour at the children’s home.
The donation included grocery items like cooking oil, sugar and salt to name but a few and old clothes from the students’ homes.” I always have a belief that those in needy should be helped” said Damba a Christian.
Mrs Baburina Madyira of Chinyaradzo Children’s Home affectionately known as Gogo Madyira explained to the students that it was their right to be with a home.
“We care for abandoned children, members of a child headed family due to death or neglected children”, she said.
Chinyaradzo Children’s Home a private chat it organisation was founded in 1962 by Anglican Church missionaries from Netherlands.
The children who are cared for up to the age of 18 go to nearby community schools with their expenses being paid for by well wishers.
Gogo Madyira emphasised that there is need for the children to be well- mannered for them to fit in a family.” A child can have foster parents and the foster parents are allowed to return the child back to the children’s home if he /she misbehaves”, she explained.
Adopted children have the right to inheritance in their adopted families as there would have changes surnames due to adoption.
Chinyaradzo Children’s Home have cared for children who have made it in life like being a graduate, celebrity or a television personality.
