Children’s home faces food shortage

Chidarikire, an official, Mr Vincent Kuora, said that sometimes the food situation gets so dire as they grapple with food reserves hardly lasting two days.
Also in the delegation were officer commanding police in the province Assistant Commissioner Bobby Murwira and provincial administrator Mr Christopher Shumba and Government officials.
Mr Shumba said the home relied on handouts from well-wishers but has seen a dearth in donor supplies, a situation that has led to a limited diet of sadza and vegetables.
He said that the home has started rearing some goats and chickens which they hope would supplement and improve meal variety.
“But the home has limited space to sustain the goat and poultry project we have just started. We have 19 goats but these have become too many for our limited space,” said Mr Kuora.
He said the goats are slaughtered after three-month intervals to ensure the children, whose ages range between two-19 years, have balanced meals.
A bakery that used to supply them with bread suddenly stopped, leaving them stranded hence the decision to prepare mealie-rice in the morning, said Mr Kuora.
Cde Chidarikire donated five bags of maize and two bags of wheat. He said the home needs to get a farm to carry out income generating projects.
“You need land to carry out full scale crop and livestock production so that you can feed the children and we are going to help you in that regard,” he said.
Orphaned Form Six pupil Sarah Mutasa, who stays at the home, paid tribute to well wishers who regularly come with food.
“We are happy that people in higher offices come to see how we are living and bring us the much needed food,” she said.