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Save our Soup Kitchen

Homes In Zimbabwe is raising money for Homes In Zimbabwe
“Homes In Zimbabwe's fundraising”

on 5 April 2011

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Homes In Zimbabwe is a UK registered charity that provides food and fuel to impoverished elderly people in Zimbabwe. HIZ has fed over 3,000 frail elderly people since its launch.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thousands of elderly people in Zimbabwe are living in poverty with no funds to buy the food they need to keep them alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Homes In Zimbabwe is a UK registered charity that provides food to over 1,600 elderly pensioners in Zimbabwe each year.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">One of the key ways in which we do this is through a Soup Kitchen in Bulawayo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Run entirely by volunteers, the soup kitchen feeds around 100 pensioners each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><strong>Without the Soup Kitchen, these people would starve</strong>; People who worked hard all their lives and saved for their retirement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>People who have had their savings wiped out and are now destitute and dependent on charity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Please support Homes In Zimbabwe with a donation and help to</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: red; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">SAVE OUR SOUP KITCHEN</span></strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donation summary

Total
£15,435.23
+ £919.25 Gift Aid
Online
£3,876.23
Offline
£11,559.00

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