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Computer Courses

A number of young people from Matthew Rusike recently undertook computer courses in Harare (thanks to the support of Qantas Cabin Crew). Since then, groups of young people have been engaging in further computer learning at Matthew Rusike, adding to their previous experience and/or learning new skills. Such skills will be valuable tools within their future education and employment opportunities. Congratulations to each of them, for their interest and participation!

A trip to Kariba Dam

It was a very interesting day. We woke up early in the morning and we packed our clothes. Then we bathed ourselves. We went on the Saturday and Sunday of Easter, with Mr and Mrs Dhliwayo, Lisa, Sister Moline and Murray. We were 15 young people. We stayed at the Methodist Church in Kariba - in Kariba it is too hot! We left the Home at 8 in the morning and arrived at Kariba at about 1 in the afternoon. The journey was very interesting. My favourite things about Kariba were to see the border of Kariba, seeing the Kariba dam, playing and praying with the children at Kariba church, and seeing elephants. When we were coming back home we stopped at Chinhoyi caves where we ate our lunch. We ate lots of food. We ate biscuits, sweets, rice and meat, cream biscuits and chips. I was very happy to have a trip to Kariba. We arrived home around 3pm.

By M. G. M .

Thank you to Mr Dhliwayo for his planning and preparation, and to the Children's Holiday Society, who provided the funds which enabled this trip to happen.

The Global Movement for Children is a coalition of organisations and individuals that share a common vision of a world fit for children, that support child rights, demand accountability and action, and campaign for the end of discrimination against children and adolescents. During the recent school holidays, four young people from Matthew Rusike were invited by UNICEF to participate in discussions for the GMC. They took part on several daysover a couple of weeks,sharing their ideas, perspectives and insights out of their life experiences in Zimbabwe, hightlighting issues affecting their lives. Maggie was one of the participants, here are her reflections……… I'm going to write about where we visited on holiday. We visited the Botanic Gardens, sponsored by Unicef. We discussed on global movement of children. This is especially for children. The needs of children we had discussed about are lack of school fees, how teachers treat us, how can we overcome from disease called AIDS, how can we solve with people who do sexual abuse to children of the world? We came with some points on all these topics. First one was lack of school fees. Some of our parents they don't have money to let their children go to school, because of lack of work in our countries and also lack of education. We had suggested that it is a point to the government to let the primary children go to school for free, so that the children could get more education from primaries and their parents can afford the money for the secondary level. It could be less hard labour for our parents to do so. Secondly was on how teachers treat us or problems on schools. Many schools are not well up on text books, teachers and other facilities. This is because the prices are still on progressing up so that the school can't afford the money for the books of every child on school, but the best is they can share one book between four or more. Sometimes we will learn other subject without teachers. This is because there are less teachers and our headmasters they don't even care to look after their staff members. On child abuse, we hear that it's caused by peer pressure and poverty. We as children must be careful to those sugar daddy and sugar mothers. This will cause AIDS too. This is some of what we had discussed. Children's Homes at the meetings were Matthew Rusike, Pota Farm, Hypenyultutsva and Emarald Hill children's homes.

By M..

Destiny Child

If you turn around the corner you will encounter a heart-moving scene. There, just five metres away from you, you are sure to sight a tear-stained five-year-old. If you look carefully, you can see a pained expression on his face. His face turned to the heavens as if in pleading for a change of his fate. Suddenly a friend gestures to him to come and freshen up as supper time is four minutes away. He scrabbles away at him. I have a home with loving friends. What expression or feeling is that in your heart? Joy, pain, tranquillity or nothing? Anyway this boy lives at Matthew Rusike Children's Home not because he has lost both his parents as a form of punishment from God, but as an example to you. At Matthew Rusike, we children are looking forward to your donations, in order for us to survive. Matthew Rusike Children's Home is a home for less-privileged children set up for orphans. The main task at this home is to try and privilege the less fortunate. Matthew Rusike is a home for children who do not have parents and those who do not have relatives to rely on at all. I kindly ask you to consider your budget to include us because we are also your children. Yes, the economy in Zimbabwe and everywhere is hard, but remember that life at Matthew Rusike depends on the support of people like you. Save a life by being generous.

S. S. - "O" level