MUTARE -- A British group, Northridge International, last week donated food, clothes and other basic necessities to an old peoples home here as part of the groups social responsibility programme.Speaking during the handover of the goods to the Society of the Destitute for the Aged in Mutare, group executive director Steven Hewitt said Northridge every quarter donates food and other support to selected orphanages and old peoples homes and that the Mutare home was the chosen recipient for this quarter.
Quarterly, the organisation (gives assistance to) orphanages, the old age and the health sector, and this quarter .. we have chosen the Society of the Destitute for the Aged in Mutare, said Hewitt.
Among the goods donated were foodstuffs, dinner plates, wrapping towels, clothes, bed linen, pillowcases and mealie-meal. Before the donation, Hewitt and 20 members of the Northridge staff took time to clean the hostels and wash clothes in a show of gratitude to the aged. Matron of the home, Anna Zimunya, expressed appreciation for the donation, saying it had come at the homes greatest hour of need.
She said apart from food, the home also faced water and electricity shortages. We have 29 males and nine females here and we would like to appeal to the City Council and ZESA to reduce water and power cuts as this is creating a health hazard, said Zimunya.
Post published in: News