Umgusa Primary Soup Kitchen Project
$400 raised
From 2 Donations
TARGET $4,500
Please support this cause
AUD
$Umguza School is an institution located on the outskirts of Bulawayo Zimbabwe. Infrastructure within the school and surrounding are poor and have been deteriorating for the last decade. The school is isolated being in the middle of bushland away from the CBD. This means that transport to and from school is difficult to come by. The school lacks basic resources that are essential for learning and lacks the basic sanitary infrastructure to ensure firstly that children are receiving a well-cultivated education but also that they are safe from disease and healthy at school. In addition to this, the school lacks electricity and water and they are in a dispute with the local city council over who owns the land over which the school is built. This has crippled the schools teaching ability and also their ability to ensure students are well hydrated and feel safe.
Our first initiative is a nutrition program that provides students with free hot lunches. A majority of the students that go to Umguza are extremely malnourished. Students walk long distances to get to school every day without eating prior nor having food to sustain themselves for the rest of the day. Students are often hungry which hinders their ability to learn, play and develop confidence in who they are. The provision of free food services for all students at Umguza is one of our three main priorities in ensuring students are empowered and enlivened by the opportunities and benefits they are given through our projects so that they may be enriched and healthy in order to become the students/people that they want to be. At our current capacity, we have only been going to school once a week, to provide these lunches. As we grow and gain capital we intend to make more frequent visits.
The cost of each visit is around 108AUD and is subject to change due to rapid inflation in Zimbabwe. A cost breakdown can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AUy2MiWBwPz0yBwVcK9R8gKG4-5_DOKFHva9KjkGa2I/edit?usp=sharing
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Update
27 Sep 2019
Thank You to our wonderful donors for helping us enrich the lives of students like Pride. This past week we delivered this package to Pride which contained a brand new set of uniforms, new school shoes and some stationery to kick off a new semester. Pride was excited and grateful for the package. It was a blessing to deliver this package to Pride and Pride felt blessed by the generosity of our donors. Thank You once again.#joy #virginiaharveyfoundation
Update
27 Sep 2019
Thank You to our wonderful donors for helping us enrich the lives of students like Pride. This past week we delivered this package to Pride which contained a brand new set of uniforms, new school shoes and some stationery to kick off a new semester. Pride was excited and grateful for the package. It was a blessing to deliver this package to Pride and Pride felt blessed by the generosity of our donors. Thank You once again.#joy #virginiaharveyfoundation
Update
26 Aug 2019
As we enter the school holidays, we have decided to shift our focus as we will no longer be able to go and provide lunches at the school. Our visits have been an amazing opportunity to speak with and help students at Umgusa Primary. The students and our volunteers have enjoyed meeting and sharing a meal that has been provided by the generosity of our donors. Our visits have revealed some issues that we would like to help with in these coming school holidays. We are looking to provide three of the students at Umgusa with new school uniforms. The student pictured is Pride who is in Grade 1. He doesn't have a full uniform and wears the same uniform everyday. We are looking to provide him with a pair of new uniforms and provide his family with various cleaning supplies. These students are from a very disadvantaged background as their families are struggling to make ends meet, we believe the provision of new uniforms is a stepping stone towards helping these students in a meaningful way as they will be confident about their appearance and themselves at school.
Update
29 Jul 2019
The economic situation in Zimbabwe has drastically shifted in the last couple of months. Changes in currency have meant that a lot of rural families have had difficulty purchasing food and supplies for school. Electricity shortages, increase in food prices and scarcity of food has left a lot of families stranded. The economic turmoil in the nation has had a particular effect on students at Umgusa School as many students we have spoken to the last couple of months have been struggling to adjust to these economic changes. Our aim is to continue to provide assistance to these students wherever we can. The Soup Kitchen Program has been fantastic at providing hot meals for students at Umgusa School and we plan to continue running this program as long as we can. Thank you to all our donors for supporting Umgusa School and the Virginia Harvey Foundation. Thank you for helping spreading joy among students at the school. #joy
Fundraising for
Virginia Harvey Foundation Nutrition ProgramThe ethos of the Virginia Harvey Foundation is to provide services that empower and enrich the lives of disadvantaged young students in order to make them leaders of positive change within their communities.
Funds banked to:
Virginia Harvey Foundation
$400 raised
From 2 Donations
TARGET $4,500
Please support this cause
AUD
$Fundraising for
Virginia Harvey Foundation Nutrition ProgramThe ethos of the Virginia Harvey Foundation is to provide services that empower and enrich the lives of disadvantaged young students in order to make them leaders of positive change within their communities.
Funds banked to:
Virginia Harvey Foundation