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| Some school pupils that benefit from the CBA Programme |
Blessed Chauke
Community
Based Aid Programme (CBAP) has vowed to continue helping vulnerable people and orphans
in communities in Masvingo.
This
comes after CBAP donated stationery and paid school fees to 30 students at Morgenster and Chirichoga High Schools last week.
CBAP
director Samuel Mhungu said they adopted a number of pupils and students from
various schools and tertiary institutions across the province and would assist
with school fees and stationery.
“Our
organisation plays a diaconal role which reaches to the community helping
orphans and other vulnerable people and we have adopted students and pupils in
over 10 schools.
“This
is like a scholarship programme where we identify students and pupils faced
with financial challenges to pursue their studies.
“We
only need serious students and pupils who are able to maintain good marks as we
will be monitoring them,” said Mhungu.
Mhungu
said they were also helping Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ) members and those
from other churches by giving them start up packages so that they start
projects of their own and various groups have already started chicken projects
which were already viable and the proceeds were being channelled to helping the
poor.
Recently
CBAP was at Nyajena church conducting a training workshop for church leaders
drawn from different denominations on business ideas which they could embark on
for their churches.
“Ours
is a faith based organisation and we want to empower church leaders with knowledge
which they will impart to their congregants so that they will be able to pay
tithes and other monetary requirements in their respective churches,” said
Mhungu
They have another programme where they bring doctors to local
clinics in Masvingo district benefitting Nyajena Rural Hospital, Musvovi, Bere
and Guwa clinics.
