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Grant to provide Lifeskills training in Harare Orphanage

Our latest grant on behalf of a donor is €5,000 to the Rose of Sharon Orphanage in Harare, Zimbabwe. At present 58 children, including 12 babies, are housed in 4 houses in different parts of Harare. They are cared for by house mothers and, increasingly, due to the dire political and economic situation in Zimbabwe currently, by the older teenage children. The children arrived with Fatima as a result of having been abandoned and, in the case of many of the babies, were found dumped in the streets or fields. Some of the orphans, as young as 9 were acting head of families before coming into the care of the Rose of Sharon.

This funding will allow the provision of a Lifeskills programme for the Orphanage’s training centres, providing vocational skills training including Dress/ Garment making, Building, Sheet/ metal work and welding, Agriculture and Motor vehicles and Mechanics. Funding will provide tools, equipment, safety clothing and training materials

For just 20 years now Fatima Maruta, founder of the Rose of Sharon Welfare Organisation in Harare, Zimbabwe, has been helping the needy and the homeless. She has done this by using her own resources to help underprivileged families, homeless children and those with HIV/AIDS by providing them with shelter, food, school fees and clothes. In 2004 she registered the Rose of Sharon as a voluntary social welfare organisation with the aim of providing a home for homeless and abandoned babies and children. Most are the victims of the endemic HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe and some of the children are HIV positive