Donation to Mrs Moyana from The Art of Being Humane Foundation

In June we heard about Mrs Moyana, a Chipinge resident who gave birth to quadruplets at Chiredzi General Hospital. We asked you to assist us raise a donation of either cash or kind so we could give Mrs Moyana some assistance as she was unemployed and from a low income home. 

I am pleased to announce that we got a great response from you and together we were able to raise a donation to send to Mrs Moyana which was delivered to her by the Rotary Club of Chipinge on our behalf this week. We reached out to Rotary to assist us to deliver the donation as we do not have any volunteers that live in the Chipenge / Chiredzi area and they were more than happy to enable us by assisting us with the logistics of the delivery of  the donated goods to Mrs Moyana. 

Rotary Club Past President Vanani Simon Nyangulu connected The Art of Being Humane Foundation with Rotary Assistant District Governor Tina Chirwa who coordinated the donation with Rotary Club of Chipinge. Mrs Chirwa said,

 "Mrs Moyana was very grateful. She has a sad story behind her. During pregnancy, she thought she was carrying twins. On the day she went into Labour, she was admitted at her Village clinic in Mabee. On giving birth, only one baby came out. They failed to deliver the other babies. They were assuming that there was only one baby in the womb remaining. She was driven to St Peters Hospital Checheche. Delivery failed and she was taken to Chiredzi General Hospital, which is 90 km away. On arrival, she was taken straight into Labour Ward. It did not take time for the Hospital staff to deliver the remaining 3 Babies. 2 Boys and 2 Girls. Cute Babies as per attached photos. The quadruplets were born prematurely. They will remain in hospital until each reaches 2 kgs of weight. The smallest one is still 1.6kgs. Mrs Moyana has 2 other children.On behalf of Chipinge Rotary club and all Rotarians worldwide, thank you very much for the Donation, which will go a long way."

We are so greatfull to Mrs Chirwa and Rotary for being willing to assist us to make a difference for Mrs Moyana and her family.

Pictures sent to us by ADG Tina Chirwa 

Mrs Moyana and hospital staff at Chiredzi Hospital
with the donations delivered by Rotary Club of Chipinge

The donation of clothes, nappies and formula including bottles for feeding
delivered to Mrs Moyana on behalf of The Art of Being Humane by The Rotary Club of Chipinge

The Moyana Quadruplets

Mrs Moyana with her quadruplets in Chiredzi Hospital 

See the original appeal here: Appeal for Donations for Lizzy Moyana

Zumba for Good Saturday 28th June 2014 -- #HelpSandraBreathe

This is a Zumbathon with a difference! Its aim it to raise awareness and funds for a 14year old girl called Sandra who has nostril cancer and urgently needs surgery! 100% of your $5 entrance fee will go towards Sandra's operation. -- Ig you don't want to exercise (though it is good for you to keep fit really) NO PROBLEM! You can still send your $5 via Ecocash (and $0.50 for charges) and it will get to the Sandra fund! Every little helps!

Details:

The Zumbathon will be on 

Saturday 28th June 2014 at 

City Bowling Club Harare Gardens at 

8am sharp! 

Registration will take place from 7.45am 

Registration is $5 plus whatever extra you can give!!!

You don't want to miss this event!!!

APPEAL for Donations: Lizzy Moyana requires assistance with her quadruplets care

Lizzy Moyana 24yr old now mother of six after giving birth to quadruplets in Chiredzi last week

The Need

24 year old Lizzy Moyana after enduring a 12-and-a-half-hour-long labour that started at Mabeye Clinic in rural Chipinge and ended at Chiredzi General Hospital, 180km away was shocked to find herself giving birth to not one but four babies - Three of the babies — two boys and a girl — weighed 1,8kg each, while the fourth one — a boy — weighed 1,5 kg.

Lizzy Moyana who is already the mother of a six year old girl and a three year old boy is currently living along with her children as her husband had left for South Africa to seek employment. Lizzy is a poor subsitance farmer struggling to make ends meat so the coming of three extra mouths to feed, though joyous was also a big blow. “I am happy that I have given birth to live and healthy babies, but the challenge that I am facing now is that I don’t have money to look after the babies. [Source: Newsday Online.]

How YOU can Help

The Art of Being Humane Foundation is carrying out a collection of anything and everything that could assist this family primarily; 

* Baby clothing - Especially woolen clothing, baby grows, tights, etc

* Baby winter blankets and receivers  (The warmer the better)

* Baby bottles, baby dummy's, baby feeding utensils, stereliser, sterelising tablets

* Baby food (formula, Cerelac) 

* Baby bath and bathing products 

* General warm bedding to keep them all toasty this winter

*Baby toys

What You Need to Do

Contact Us!!!!

Please get in touch ASAP and let us know what you are able to do to help us help Alice and her family

Email: artbeinghumane@gmail.com

Whatsapp: +263 77 4545 700

FUNDRAISING: Island Hospice and Bereavement Service - 'Trainers Day" 19th June 2014

Island Hospice and Bereavement Service Fundraising Initiative

Contact Info

Physical address: 6 Natal Road, Belgravia, Harare, Zimbabwe

Postal address: PO Box CY7, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe

Phone number: +263-(0)4-701674-7, 791605/6

Fax: +263-(0)4-700930

Email address: island [at] africaonline [dot] co [dot] zw

Facebook page: Island Hospice Service

Twitter handle: @IslandHospiceZW

 Website: www.islandhospice.org

The Back story

Island Hospice Service (ISLAND) is a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), registration number W.O. 27/79 and stationed in Harare. It was established in 1979 as the first Hospice in Africa. 

The initial objectives were to provide direct home-based palliative care and comprehensive bereavement counselling services to people with a life-threatening illness including the caregivers and family members. However, ISLAND soon expanded its activities beyond direct service care towards a community-based programme. This is in line with the vision of the organisation and the desire to spread the palliative care and bereavement concept to the whole country especially to the most underprivileged groups.

[Source: Kubatana.net]

What they aim to do

• To provide physical, emotional, social and spiritual care and support, primarily at home and also in hospital, for patients and their families facing a life-threatening illness.
• To provide a comprehensive, therapeutic service for the bereaved.
• To provide training within the community and for professionals in the fields of palliative and bereavement care.

How you can help

There is always a need for financial assistance, goods 

donations and volunteers to help out!

If you feel you can contribute to the hospice either

by participating in the "Trainers Day" fundraiser or 

giving and volunteering in any other way please 

contact the hospice directly using the contact info

above and don't forget to mention where you heard

about them from!