Bulawayo- Pastor Tapiwa Maponga, who is a founding Director of Educate a Child Foundation Trust, a Bulawayo based non-profit making organisation, has adopted ten from hundreds of homeless children who have been dumped by the City Council, in their effort to clean up the city centre for Youths games, which are starting this week.
The Bulawayo based and Masvingo born man of the cloth will pay for their school fees and their upkeep at their church base.
“I read about this sad story from your publication last week, and I made efforts to visit the mentioned places, and found out that there are kids with the ability to go to school. I also visited Sidojiwe flats where a good number of orphans are staying and also found heart breaking situations. I will fight to help them acquire birth certificates with relevant authorities and start paying their school fees from January next year,” said Pastor Maponga.
Last week ZimEye carried a story on the dumping of street children at Bulawayo’s biggest dumping site. Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Martin Moyo, vehemently denied ever carrying that exercise, but ZimEye visited the area and found hundreds of street children dumped in the area, with a number of vagrants, also dumped there in an effort to clean the city, in preparation for forthcoming youth games this week.
Pastor Maponga also attended one of the Sidojiwe Pre-School graduations during the weekend, a product of his sponsorship which he started early this year as a pilot project for the disadvantaged children.
The Pastor has since started paying school fees for the Sidojiwe orphans, who will be in grades one to seven respectively.
8 Replies to “Pastor adopts Ten Orphans from Ngozi Dumpsite and Sidojiwe”
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mr reporter, how come the news about the painting of the pre-school by some volunteers has gone unreported, even though it a significant tangible contribution to the education and morale of the young children? it is good to be objective in reporting and not be subjective or selective of the news that you may wish to report….journalism 101. 😉
and mr pastor, it is good to acknowledge the contributions made by the team that painted the classrooms as well because it is not meet for the man of God to claim all the praise and glory when others voluntarily contributed time, effort and money for the good cause…shepherding 101. 😉
nice… but we also gather there was an unreported initiative of the pre school being painted by a group of volunteers? was this also done by the pastor?
God The Lord Jesus Christ Our Father Bless you brother, you are also right…AMEN
Messenger of God, as you call yourself. you cannot take away school out of the basic needs l think you miss the point there. they need shelter food and education. the word of God can well be understood by someone who has gone to school. Zim suffers today because of those who blindly believe. school is important as much as shelter and food. get that right.
You are blessed man. Keep up the good work. thus what pastor hood comes with a big heart. I hope the mayor who dumped them will be in a position to help you acquire birth certificates than denying what is on the ground.
Strange that the zpuff business ” tycoon mogul ” boasters never help. Also where are the fake bogus magayas mboro tb Joshua makandiwas kunongas
Bless u pastor Maponga, where exactly r u situated i wnt 2 drop a donation someday
God Bless you brother, we need more children to be taken off the streets, in fact all of them not just a few. School is not very important but that they should all be accommodated, fed and taught the Word Of God Our Father Jesus Christ…AMEN