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ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu yesterday donated gifts to 200 children.
The beneficiaries are family members of ZPCS employees and the surrounding communities at Chikurubi Dam View.
Comm-Gen Chihobvu invited disadvantaged members of the community and those living with disabilities from the country’s 10 provinces and donated wheelchairs, food hampers and stationery to them.
“Today’s event marks the inaugural holding of the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service Commissioner-General Christmas Carols.
“It is being run under the theme ‘Our Saviour the Giver, Our Refuge’.
“The beneficiaries will receive some hampers consisting of an assortment of food items, sunscreen lotions, sun hats, stationery, a walking frame as well as some wheelchairs that were donated by Africa University and Coincide Engineering,” he said.
The event also gave him an opportunity to interact with underprivileged children from the ZPCS, and the community, at large.
“It is also a time dedicated for touching lives of disadvantaged members of the society, who include orphaned children of members of staff, officers’ dependents and people living with disabilities, including those living with albinism, among others from the wider community.
“Commissioner-General Christmas Carols initiative is also part of the Commissioner-General’s Goodwill Trust Fund’s thrust.
“Its inception is, therefore, meant to buttress the Commissioner-General’s Goodwill Trust Fund’s objectives.”
“Some of us might be wondering why giving during Christmas Carols Programme?
“Well, the answer is very simple in that Jesus was and remains a friend of this special population or the target group,” he said.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter