Happy 2014 and e’Pap Zimbabwe wishes you a year of health, success and dreams come true.
There have been some great success stories
with people who have been eating e’Pap since we started sales a few months ago….
A young mother having a
problem feeding her baby of 6 months started eating e’Pap twice a day to start off with and a week later called excited to report she now has enough milk to feed a village!
A worker in a church was advised to go home
as his health was severely compromised, his medicines were not changed but he
was put on to e’Pap - he is now able to return to work.
An elderly lady from a local old age home
called to make sure we knew that her local e'Pap supplier has run out of stock and she was most upset
as she needs it for her daily dose of energy!
It is so rewarding and exciting to hear
these stories and reaffirms our commitment to growing the e'Pap revolution.
You can help to make dreams come true...
There are some astonishing individuals,
organisations and Non Government Organisations in Zimbabwe committed to helping
people to cope with the tragic hunger stalking our nation. I will be posting regular profiles of some of these organisations going forward. If you would like to support any of these programmes I am happy to put you
in touch direct with the organization or you can work with me to help our
people to grow from dependency to independence, to help them realise their
dreams.
FOR ONLY $15
YOU CAN PROVIDE A CHILD AN E'PAP MEAL
EVERY DAY OF THE SCHOOL WEEK FOR A FULL SCHOOL TERM!
MARULA SCHOOL
To help support a child at Marula School, please contact Bookey on her e mail: bookey@stonehills.org
Bookey Peek has been working with Marula
School for several years and her dedication is inspiring. She runs a conservation club for the
children, she and her husband Richard also give as much support as they can to
the school despite their hectic lives keeping the game alive on their small
farm. The old adage “if you want
something done, ask a busy person” is exemplified by this couple.
Marula Primary School lies 72 km outside
Bulawayo, and 44 km from the Botswana Border.
It has a total of 374 pupils – of whom 87 are boarders and 287 day
scholars.
The boarders are relatively well taken care
of as they are given regular meals at the school. However, this is not the case with the day
scholars, the parents of whom are mostly farm labourers or unemployed.
The fees per term per child are $25, plus
parents must find money for uniforms, books stationery etc.
Matabeleland is suffering the consequences of
the recent second, successive drought. Despite
the recent rains in Zimbabwe, water is always extremely short in the area, and
the school borehole dried up some months ago.
Crops have failed, and cattle are starving.
The school has singled out the fifty most
vulnerable children in the school. Some
are being taken care of by a single unemployed parent, and many are AIDS
orphans being cared for by relatives, who have little enough food for their own
children. These 50 children are the worst affected, but there are many more who need support as well.
Some, like Rejoice below, walk many kilometres
to school each day on an empty stomach and at best, can only expect a meal in
the evening. As a result, they often
either miss school altogether or arrive mid-morning.
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Mrs. Lupahla with some of the
orphaned/vulnerable children.
She is assisted by Janet Gubaguba and
Jennifer Nqwababa
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Through the work of one very hard-working
lady and her family in the UK, Bookey has managed to raise funds to feed fifty
of the most badly affected of these children, but only enough to give them
e'Pap once a day in water, and then only during the school term. These needy children have been benefiting from e'Pap for some months and the teacher in charge, Mrs. Lupahla, has said that
one relative reports that a child who lost both parents to AIDS and was
beginning to lose her hair (a common sign of malnutrition), is so much better
since getting her e’Pap at the school. The two women at Marula who dish out the e’Pap
told us that they have seen a "huge improvement" in the appearance of
the kids who are getting it every day - faces shining, cheeks filling out. So, to improve nutrition in Bulawayo and to help with malnutrition in Harare use e'Pap and follow the informative information we supply.
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Here are a few of the children and their
stories:
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| This is Bukhosi Ndlovu, aged around 9 years. He and his younger sister Thandolwenkosi are AIDS orphans and live with their very elderly and infirm grandmother, who can barely take care of them. Bukhosi is withdrawn and has learning problems and other challenges. He often does not speak or answer questions. |
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Brian Puthi is in Grade 4, and stays with
his mother who does not have a job. No other details are available.
Some parents bring their children to school and explain their
problems. Others, like Brian’s relatives,
just send the child with friends or a sibling, leaving the teachers to take
care of them as they think fit.
Sitting behind Brian is Bright Moyo – he is
in ECD (Kindergarten) and is aged 6.
Again, no details available.
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Sharon Ndebele is 10 years old and in Grade
four. Both parents died in 2010, and together
with 10 other children, she now lives with her aunt, who is unmarried and
unemployed. She is malnourished. However, despite this, she still manages to
do well in class and is particularly good at maths. She would like to be a teacher.
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Junior Mlotshwa is 7 years old. Despite his disadvantages, he comes first in
class, and often obtains 100% in all subjects.
He would like to be a doctor. His
father died in 2006, and he lives with his mother who is terminally ill, and
six other children, three of them also sick.
He walks 4 km to school and back every day.
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Norman Dube is in Grade 7 and is 14 years
old.
He has lost both his parents, and
an older sibling, who does not have a job, has become head of the family.
He is a keen member of our wildlife
conservation club.
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