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Parish Action supports over 300 orphaned primary school aged children with HIV in 7 schools in the Bulawayo area.
In 2010 our Lent Appeal alone raised more than £3700 enabling additional children to attend primary school than in previous years.
School fees continue to rise and the World Health Organisation has now withdrawn their feeding scheme at Junior Schools so our support is needed more than ever.
Vulindlela Guardians is taking an additional 70 children into Primary School in 2011 Parish Action is urgently looking for new sponsors to pay school fees for these children to provide them with an education and a future.
We would therefore like to ask families in the parish to consider sponsoring one of these orphaned children to stay in school for another year.
THESE ARE THE STORIES OF SOME OF THE ORPHANS WE SUPPORT, told by them:
Sandile Masuku (10)
Class 3c Insukamini Primary School, Bulawayo
Mother: deserted Father: unknown
I stay with my grandmother. She’s not feeling well. She’s HIV positive. Sometimes we spend two days no food no clothes. No fees, torn uniforms. I am sick with epilepsy. I want to be a doctor.
Cynthia Gonda (8)
Class 1 Insukamini Primary School, Bulawayo
Mother: deceased Father: deceased
I would like to go to school and finish and becoming a nurse, I want God to keep my Grandmother and Grandfather and see my successes in life and I also want to by a car and take care of my granys.
Michael Dube (13)
Class 4c Insukamini Primary School, Bulawayo
Mother: deceased 2001 Father: deceased 2008
I live with my grandmother my mother died I am 13 years old I am sick and I take pills. Nobody takes care of us.
Donelliwa Valentine (8)
Class 1a Nkulumane Primary School, Bulawayo
Mother: ill Father: deserted
My name is Donelliwa born in 2003 I live in Mpopoma. I stay with my grandmother and my young brother. I don’t have shoes and clothes.
Viola Josiah (8)
Class 1 a Helemu Primary School
Mother and father: deceased
My name is Viola. I lost my parents when I was very young. I cannot remember. I stay with my mother’s sister since 2003. I am very desperate because I need to go to school but my aunt do not have money. I sell tomatoes for rent and food I need your help.
Joyline Maguri (12)
Class 6b Insukamini School, Bulawayo
Mother: deceased Father: deceased
I live with uncle he don’t have money to pay us school fees. Our parents died 4 years ago. Uncle is not working he doesn’t have money to buy me uniform even food we go to school without eating.
Magret Ngwenya (7)
Class 3d Nkulumane Primary, Bulawayo
Mother and father: deserted
I live a difficult life my parents dumped me when I was 2 years old at my grandmother doorstep I don’t have birth certificate and we don’t have food. My grandfather is very cruel to us and talks bad words I am suffering.
