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Herald Reporter
In the fight against the spread of Covid-19 Chitungwiza Central Hospital has been given an impetus after a non for profit organisation, Generous Heart Foundation donated 50 000 litres of water to 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.
Accepting the donation, now sacked Chitungwiza Hospital Chief Executive Dr Enock Mayida said the water was enough to cover two days supply of their needs.
“We are grateful for the donation and any donation that may come through no matter how small,” he said.
“We appealed to them to assist in borehole drilling for a more permanent solution to our water crisis.”
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.
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