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INMATES at Mutare Remand Prison last Friday received groceries worth hundreds of dollars from Mutare Teachers’ College tudents as part of the college’s social responsibility programmes. The goods were handed over to Mutare Remand Prison’s officer-in-charge, Superintendent Maplan Kakoto.
They include sanitary wear, cooking oil, sugar, peanut butter, toiletries, detergents, stationery, dried beans, soap, salt, corn snacks (maputi), powdered milk and clothes.
The gesture came at a time when Mutare Remand Prison inmates were facing a lot of supply challenges due to the prevailing harsh economic conditions.
Speaking at the donation ceremony, the college’s Student Representative Council president, Tafadzwa Murayirwa, said as part of their social responsibility as a college in the Mutare community, they had a mandate of being considerate towards the disadvantaged and poor.
Said Murayirwa: “As part of our social responsibility as a college in the Mutare community, Mutare Teachers’ College has a mandate of caring for the needy and less privileged. It has created alliances with a number of social institutions that take care of those in need and among them is the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services.”
Supt Kakoto expressed gratitude to the students’ kind gesture and took them through a tour of the remand home.
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