Zimbabwe

Swimming Therapy for our most Disabled Children

Items fabricated during this sowing course are displayed on the well known Trade Fair exhibition of Bulawayo

The local health worker at the Shangani Mine is paid for by the government. 

Extra's for halfwayhouse for AIDS-patients
The percentage of people carrying the HIV-virus is high in Zimbabwe (ca. 20%). More than 2000 people a week die of aids-related diseases in this country. 

De Madaula School in Zimbabwe is situated in remote Beitbridge East District
De headmistress asked Mojoy for sportequipment.

Most of the fysically handicapped children that visit this school are boarders. 
They used to get full care, everything was done for them, but since the start of the ïndependent living programme a few years ago, tehy learn to live as independent as possible. 

 

Entumbeni Old People's Home is a home for 75 black people somewhere in the middle of the townships (the politically correct term would be: high density areas) of Bulawayo.

Done! 

Clothes and suncreams for Sithembinkosi Mojo, Zimbabwe.

Sitembinkosi (7 years, albino) is one of the many victims of AIDS in Africa. Both her parents died of the disease.

Request from KG VI: We are desperately trying to find ways to improve teaching of deaf students. There can be no teaching while teachers do not know sign language. We have designed a course to teach students teachers who intend to teach deaf students when they graduate. Unbelievable that sign language is not offered as a subject at the college but it isn’t. This year we have no funds to continue with the very successful sign language teaching programme we ran last year. We would like to hold 3 lessons per week, 2 for the trainee teachers and 1 for parents of deaf children. We have 6 facilitators and there are on average 12 working weeks in a term.

Per term: € 1100
Total for a year: € 3300 

John Dube , from Harare, Zimbabwe, worked as a guard for a European family until he contracted lung disease and could no longer work long shifts.

The Mpilo support group for the Prevention of Parent-to-child transmission of HIV - is set up by Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF] (Doctors Without Borders) for mothers with aids in Harare, Zimbabwe. 

KG VI is a boarding school for handicapped children in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Moments of Joy has done several projects for this centre, which is having a difficult time giving their children what they need, let alone offer them a future after school.
To motivate children to keep on studying, no matter how bleak the future might seems, the school planned an outing for the best students to the famous Victoria Falls. 

With an increasing number of children in wheelchairs if KG VI school takes them on any trips, they cannot fit children and wheelchairs in the bus. The school would like to purchase a small lightweight trailer which could fit 6 to 8 wheelchairs and could be towed behind the bus.

At KGVI boarding school for disabled and deaf students Courage teaches the deaf seniors as she has excellent sign language skills and is a dedicated and skilled teacher.  Her subjects are accounts, bookkeeping, English and dance/drama.  She herself is in a wheelchair and cannot reach the blackboard to give her lessons.  She relies on a laptop and projector and prepares her lessons on these as well.  She achieved 80% pass rate in her subjects last year.  Unfortunately the rather ancient laptop and projector  the school had found for her are now unreliable.  KGVI now would like to provide her with new essential tools.  

The Ministry of Education in Zimbabwe put a freeze on new staffing some years ago.  Despite pleas to the Ministry on the grounds that it is a special needs school no new ancillary staff have been sent to KGVI boarding school for disabled and deaf children in the past 5 years.  As older staff retire this leaves the school  very short of class assistants.  Because of the disabilities of the children many of them need extra help in the classroom.  In the higher levels many children need help with writing their notes.  These are children with Cerebral Palsy with uncontrolled movements which do not allow for writing.  For example in the second year of secondary school there are 4 students who are unable to write for themselves.  We need an assistant for them. In addition in the early learning classes for the deaf the school needs assistants who can help the little ones learn sign language as quickly as possible.  These little children come into school with no language at all and the sooner they can pick up sign language the sooner they will be able to begin formal learning.  Deaf adults can help these children acquire language quickly.  In total the school asks help in paying 4 class assistants (2 for senior classes, 2 for deaf classes).  Total costs for four assistants for a year: €10.028

Make sure the disabled Sheperd can become a tennis teacher!

Sherperd Banda is a disabled very talented tennis player. He is19 years old and just did his final exams to the KGVI School and Centre for disabled children in Bulawayo, Zimbawe. He lives there ever since his sixth birthday. Now he must find a job training. Wheelchair tennis is his passion and he got a chance to attend a coachingcursus in Australia.
During his elementary school Sheperd lost both of his parents. Thereupon he became demoralized for school until the day he came into contact with wheelchair tennis. Shepherd's life made a reversal and wheelchair tennis became his passion. He led the KGVI wheelchair tennis program and paved the way for others.

There are two main disadvantages for wheelchair tennis players in Zimbabwe. The first is the lack of a good quality wheelchairs and the other is lack of tournaments and thus competition. When the funds allowed it he played matches in South Africa, but this was costly and could therefore not take place regularly.
Now that he has done his O-levels Sheperd  would like to continue with his tennis training. He has put a lot of energy into making contacts and this had resulted in being selected for a coaching training at Tennis Australia.
He will have to do go to Sydney for 3 months – September, October, and November 2015.
He will be enrolled in 3 ITF (International Tennis Federation) tournaments. These are professional tournaments and he will play for prize money. His performance will contribute to his ITF ranking. At least one of these tournaments will be in Brisbane. There will be initial charges and travel/accommodation costs.
He will follow the level 1 Coaching course under the guidance of a professional mentor to qualify for the certificate. He can then work in Africa as a tennis coach.
His contacts in Australia can arrange Board and lodging for him.

But he needs to pay for the air ticket of approx € 1400 and the coaching fee of ca € 1250.