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Herald Reporter
Covid-19 has affected communities in various ways. With local transmission cases on the increase in Zimbabwe, there is need for people to take extra precautionary measures.
These include social distancing, wearing a face mask, avoiding crowded areas, washing hands with soap and water, cleaning hands frequently and thoroughly using alcohol-based hand sanitizers among others.
In hospitals, extra precautionary measures have to be taken to protect patients and health care workers.
But, for a hospital like Chitungwiza Central Hospital where water challenges are the order of day, doing so can be a huge task.
In an effort to fight against the spread of Covid-19 Chitungwiza Central Hospital was last week given 50 000 litres of water by a non for profit organisation, Generous Hearts Foundation.
The timely donation will alleviate perennial water woes at the institution.
Over the past few years the town of Chitungwiza has been battling water supplies with residents and organisations being stuck between a rock and a hard surface.
Day and night, locals queue for water hours on end at the few boreholes drilled in the town and others have become so desperate to the point of fetching riverbed water.
Generous Heart Foundation is a brainchild of Chikwature family sisters Vimbai, Dorcas, Chipo, Tendai and Angela from Unit M in Chitungwiza who are now based in the diaspora.
The water delivered at Chitungwiza Central Hospital was supplied by Enrisha Civil International on the organisation’s behalf.
The donated water was enough to cover two day’s supply of their needs.
Chikwature sisters, are now an envy of many as they also regularly donate water and food hampers to ease the Chitungwiza’s Covid-19 lockdown woes.
They have also undertaken to supply 50 000 litres of water per week for free in Unit M, an area they spent the better part of their childhood living.
The gesture follows a realisation that the community they grew up in was reeling under critical water and food shortages, worsened by the Covid-19-induced lockdown.
Chikwature sisters also give food hampers to 60 elderly and disadvantaged people in the high-density suburb.
Online Reporter