Grace Splatters Birthday Cash
29 July 2015
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The First Lady Grace Mugabe has implored those who run charitable organisations to be honest, transparent and upright in the running of the institutions.
Grace was speaking to representatives of several charitable organisations from different parts of Zimbabwe who gathered at Mazowe Children’s Home for the distribution ceremony of the proceeds of the First Lady’s 50th birthday fundraising dinner hosted Saturday night.
Mugabe urged charitable institutions to declare everything given in private and not to convert anything to their own personal use, warning them that God is always watching.
She said charity work is not a business where funds to do business can be applied for in a bank, adding that support for charity is from well-wishers who can only be inspired through good use of the donations.
Mugabe said charity should be viewed as a calling and be taken seriously with a committed heart.
She explained to the gathering that the Grace Mugabe Children’s Home is a permanent residence for the children unlike other institutions that take care of abandoned children up to the age of 18 when they are released into the world with or without education to equip themselves for the world.
Dr Fatima Maruta founder of the Rose of Sharon Orphanage implored the First Lady to conduct workshops on setting similar orphanages built along the lines of Mazowe Children’s Home.
Dr Maruta added that it is a pain to most orphanage founders to release their children into a jungle world after teaching them the ways of life.
The different homes received a variety of groceries, including bath soaps, rice, mealie-meal, cooking oil and US$5 000 each.
50 children’s homes from all provinces of the country were represented at the ceremony accompanied by two children from each one of the invited homes.
Mugabe also spoke about some charitable organisations who decline to give her children when her home approaches them saying they will be denying the children a second chance in life.
She said some institutions use the children to attract donations.
Some care givers who have served at the home for a period of at least 3 years were also acknowledged and thanked, with the First Lady almost in tears in expressing her gratitude.
The ceremony was also attended by President of the Senate Edna Madzongwe, Zanu PF Deputy Secretary for the Women’s League Eunice Sandi Moyo, Acting Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Prisca Mupfumira and the Minister of State for Mashonaland Central province Advocate Martin Dinha among several other government ministers, legislators and dignitaries.