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Raymond Jaravaza
BULAWAYO Football Legends — a group of ex-footballers who played for a number of topflight clubs in the city in their heyday — are set to play prisoners in a charity match at Khami Prison on Saturday afternoon.
The match is part of the Bulawayo Football Legends’ annual social responsibility initiative to mobilise second-hand clothes and foodstuffs for the inmates.
“As is the norm we arrange a game with inmates at Khami Prison every year and also donate various items such as clothes, food and blankets after the match. It’s part of our efforts to make them feel appreciated despite the fact that they are prisoners who wronged society by committing crimes but we believe they can be rehabilitated into productive members of the community after their release,” said the Bulawayo Football Legends secretary-general Herbert Dick.
The prisoners will get a chance to rub shoulders with Dick, a former Amazulu and Warriors defender, ex-Highlanders defender Gift Lunga Junior, crowd favourite in his playing days ex-Warriors talisman Johannes Ngodzo, Zenzo Moyo — a former Bosso striker — among other local football legends.
“The donations are not only for the male inmates but also for females so well wishers can also drop off sanitary pads, tissues and other items at the Footballers Union of Zimbabwe offices in Bulawayo,” added Dick.
Meanwhile last Wednesday, the Footballers Union of Zimbabwe (FUZ) together with the Red Cross Society of Zimbabwe handed over food stuffs, sanitary ware and clothes mobilised by the two organisations to victims of Cyclone Idai — the natural catastrophe that ravaged parts of Manicaland Province last year.
FUZ called on individuals and companies to continue rendering assistance to the areas hit by the disaster even though “the hype has died down but the people of Chipinge and Chimanimani still need humanitarian assistance”.
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