Zim gets undertakers’ post

a non-profit world organisation of funeral operatives.
The organisation seeks to promote international understanding and goodwill among the world’s funeral service professionals.
It also offers a platform for the exchange of professional views and information as well as to achieve uniform standards, rules, regulations and treaties for the cost-efficient international repatriation of deceased individuals.
In an interview on his return from a four-day meeting in Bogota, Colombia, Moonlight Funeral Services group chief executive officer Mr Chomi Makina said Zimbabwe has been appointed into the International Council of Direction for Africa.
“We were appointed together with Uganda and Sierra Leone to head this council and this shows that the world has confidence in us as a country to lead others,” Mr Makina said.
He said the appointment would also go a long way in improving the quality of the services rendered by funeral service providers.
This, Mr Makina added, would materialise because there would be increased level of the professional knowledge of funeral service as well as safeguarding global funeral heritage in joint efforts with other organisations and to create awareness in governments and international bodies.
Founded in 1970, the federation seeks to research and jointly study legal, moral, social and scientific issues relating to funeral services and thanatological activities, especially with regard to services rendered in the demoralisation and disposition of deceased individuals.
It also encourages and develops education for funeral services and embalming or thanatopraxy throughout the world to achieve uniform standards and regulations.