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MASVINGO-The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) Mubatanidzwa weMadzimai in Masvingo Province has donated essential items including diapers, cereals, peanut butter, body lotion and baby milk to the children’s ward at Masvingo Provincial Hospital.
Mubatanidzwa weMadzimai is a women’s fellowship comprising members from various mainline churches under the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, including the Baptist Church in Zimbabwe, Church of Christ, Reformed Church in Zimbabwe, Salvation Army and Methodist Church in Zimbabwe among others.
The donation is aimed at supporting vulnerable children being cared for at the hospital, particularly those abandoned by their mothers at birth.
Masvingo Provincial Hospital is currently caring for three abandoned children: two infants aged two months and five months, as well as a 17-year-old boy who was abandoned at the age of five in 2012 and has remained at the hospital ever since.
Speaking during the handover ceremony, ZCC Mubatanidzwa weMadzimai Masvingo Province President for 2026, Georgina Muparuri said the donations were collected from women in the member churches as a way of assisting the hospital.
“As mothers, we understand the challenges of caring for babies, so we decided to donate the little that we have to help ease the burden on the hospital,” said Muparuri.
She added that the initiative was inspired by the teachings of the Bible.
“As Mubatanidzwa weMadzimai, we were inspired by the Word in Matthew, which teaches that whatever we do for others, we do for Christ.”
Masvingo Provincial Hospital Public Relations Officer, Sister Chioniso Gono expressed gratitude for the donation saying it would go a long way in supporting the children under the hospital’s care.
Gono said the hospital is looking after two infants and the 17-year-old boy, who is visually impaired and requires full-time care because he is unable to attend to some of his basic needs independently.
She described the donation as timely and said it would help improve the welfare of the children while easing the burden at the only referral public hospital in the province.
