malvernmugadzikwa
Sunday Mail Correspondent
THIS is a clarion call to all families that are celebrating Mother’s Day today.
Celebrate and remember families whose children cannot be with their mothers.
Some have lost their mothers.
Please remember and reach out to them in this season.
Mother’s Day can easily trigger them.
Reach out and give them some tender love and care.
Most mothers sacrificed for their children to get the best education.
Infact, just carrying a child for nine months is a blessing.
To this day, some mothers still care and support their grown-up children.
Others have adopted children in their communities.
There is generally a lot of extended family mothering that is taking place, even in this day and age.
In essence, mothers tend to look out for their children and the community at large.
There are mothers who have children who are in the diaspora; others are widowed or divorced and cannot make ends meet.
There are also mothers who have lost their children. Please remember these mothers whose children have gone to be with the Lord. They are very special.
Days like birthdays and Mother’s Day are huge triggers for them.
They just need some love.
Family members do not have to tiptoe around them. Just be normal and sensitive. Reach out. Call them. Send flowers. Invite them to your family gatherings and lunches.
Remember, the most difficult thing for a parent to do is to bury their child.
It is meant to be the other way round.
Marjorie Mutemererwa — a public relations, media and communications strategist and specialist — knows this very well.
Her only child, Richard Kevin Rugube, was electrocuted whilst taking a shower on February 3, 2011.
He was 16 years old at the time and was a learner at St George’s College.
Richard would have turned 29 this year.
Some of Richard’s agemates are getting married or are already married.
Most of them are working and they will buy their mothers flowers or special presents, and taking them for lunch.
These milestones and Mother’s Day are what jolt Marjorie’s fond memories of her child. In honour of her son, she has since set up the Richard Kevin Rugube and Marjorie Fadziso Mutemererwa Foundation, which reaches out and assists orphans and vulnerable communities.
Marjorie also penned a book titled “7s: Shattered, Shaken, yet Still Standing; evidence of God’s Strength, Supremacy and Sovereignty”, which chronicles the journey of the shock of losing her child and how God helped her cope with such a painful loss.
Today, Marjorie will be wishing her own mother a Happy Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there.
You are all special.
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