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CHIEDZA IN THE NEWS
Granny Bulletin, Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmother to Grandmother
Campaign
November 6, 2008
" ... I also visited the nursery school
which was very impressive: stimulating, caring and with well-trained
teachers. It was especially moving to see one boy with Downs Syndrome
who was being integrated with the other children – he was obviously
very happy in the school and the other children responded well to
him, as well."
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As Chiedza opens its doors to more orphans and vulnerable children
(OVC), it is faced with a difficult task of providing supplementary
feeding at a time when donors are facing a financial crunch due
to world recession. The meal given in the wet feeding programme
at Chiedza still remains the only meal of the day for most of our
children. Chiedza has a total number of 800 children and feed a
fluctuating 450 children per feed.
Despite all our endeavors as Chiedza to help both children and caregivers
living with HIV with medication to prolong and improve their immune
system, we are still faced with painful losses of some members of
the family. As of January 2009 we have lost 2 caregivers and 1 child.
The HIV pandemic still remains the high cause of death in Zimbabwe
and the reason for the high rate of OVC.
We are grateful for the continuous support from the US embassy
as we have received varied sponsorship from different ambassadors
over the years. This year we have received 2 computers and reading
books for our new resource centre and await yet another donation
of dolls for 155 of our young children between the ages of 3-9yrs.
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