Shot in arm for Chimanimani twins

Tendai Gukutikwa
Post Correspondent

A CHIMANIMANI family has received a donation of a two-roomed house from an organisation that assists families with twins, the Twins Association of Zimbabwe.

The new house will bring relief to the family which was badly affected by the Cyclone Idai tragedy in 2019 and have been living in a one-roomed hut.

The room was being used as a kitchen, bedroom and dining room despite its dilapidated state.

Twins across the country donated towards the cause and raised US$1 750 which was used to construct the house for the 10-year-old Sauti twins and their family in Mutidzawanda Village under Chief Mutambara.

TAZI was co-founded by twins, Messer, Mayor Tendai and Lawyer Farai Katonha in 2016.

Mr Lawyer Farai Katonha, a co-president of the organisation, said their mandate was to help twins across the country as they face peculiar challenges daily.

“The Sauti twins were badly affected by Cyclone Idai, but they are among some people who did not get any assistance.
“We are here to assist them,” he said.

He also said twins across the country were facing challenges which include discrimination at schools from teachers and fellow students.

“Psychological defects occur because of such discriminations on twins.

“They should not be separated in the name of experiments.

“This has been happening mainly to identical twins and it affects them psychologically. There is need for the responsible people to stop it,” said Mr Lawyer Farai Katonha.

He said the house does not only belong to the twins, but the Sauti family as a whole.

“The whole family benefited because of the twins and that is how it works,” he said.

In an interview with The Manica Post, the twins’ mother, Mrs Cecelia Sauti said they were struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table before TAZI came to their rescue.

She said apart from helping them with building a new house, the organisation also donated foodstuffs and clothes for her twins.

Mrs Sauti expressed her appreciation to the association for its intervention which will see her children being accommodated in a comfortable environment.