US$20 000 school furniture for six Matabeleland schools

AS first term drew to a close, children at six primary schools, four from Matobo Rural District and two located just outside Bulawayo had an extra reason to be excited. The reason being the Australian Government donation of classroom furniture valued at US$20000. The assistance came after the Australians had been approached for help by the Collin Nyabadza Children’s Voice Charitable Trust (CNCVCT).

Schools that benefited in Matobo were Guardian Angel, Mbuso Primary, St. Anna Primary and Tjewondo Primary, those just outside Bulawayo were Hope Fountain Primary and Mguza SDA Primary.

The respective school headmasters were pleased with the good quality of the furniture. Speaking on behalf of her school St. Anna head, Mrs. Maphosa said,

“Many thanks to the Australian Government and the CNCVCT for the support. The furniture is of a very good quality and looks very durable too. The new equipment will certainly help motivate our pupils to aim higher.”

Two more handover ceremonies were held at Mguza SDA and Hope Fountain Primary Schools. The CNCVCT was represented by Board Chairperson, Mr. Siqhubumthetho Dube on both occasions. In his remarks, he urged the schools to take very good care of their new equipment as it does not come very easily.

“I urge you all who have received this new furniture to ensure it is well taken care of. In your homes, when you buy new household equipment I am certain you go out of your way to ensure that it is looked after so that it could last longer. I therefore advise you to do the same to your new gift given to you by the Australians”, stressed Mr. Dube.

Speaking from his base in Canada, the CNCVCT Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Collin Nyabadza took this opportunity to convey his gratitude to the Australian Government for the wonderful support.

“I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Australians for the faith they have demonstrated in our young organization as this marks the second time in three years that they have funded us. A year ago they gave us USD14 100 which we used to furnish five primary schools in Bubi Rural District”, remarked Mr. Nyabadza. “The success of our programs depend on the support we receive from various funding bodies”, he added.

He also paid tribute to supplier Vast Engineering for their sound business ethics and principles and hoped the two institutions would continue working together in the pursuit of helping the disadvantaged rural school children of Zimbabwe.

Mr. Nyabadza however lamented the lack of a program vehicle for his organization.

“We are a very proactive organization whose mission is to reach out to very remote schools which have been neglected for a quite a long time now. The lack of a program vehicle is certainly slowing us down in carrying out our work. I am therefore appealing to well-wishers to bail us out with the donation of a truck or funds to purchase one”, pointed Mr. Nyabadza.

For more about the work the CNCVCT does they may be viewed at, www.childrensvoicezimbabwe.org

Those willing to help may send an email to, childrensvoicecharitabletrust@gmail.com or they may get hold of Mr. Dube at, Cell: 263-772440070

Furniture project to be completed soon

AS the Collin Nyabadza Children’s Voice Charitable Trust (CNCVCT), we are pleased to announce that the $20000 furniture project we have been working on since December 2018 will be completed before February.

Thanks to a donation of USD20 000 grant from the Australian Government. The project is part of our ongoing commitment to creating an enabling environment for rural pupils to learn and realize their full potential. We are going to furniture six disadvantaged primary schools in Matobo and UMguza District benefiting over 4000 pupils.

We are expecting our supplier to deliver furniture batches to some of the schools anytime this week. The schools benefiting from the consignment, four in Matobo Rural District are Mbuso, Guardian Angel, Tjewondo and St. Anna primary schools. The other two in UMguza are Seventh Day Adventist and Hope Fountain primary Schools.

We are grateful to our sponsor for their support and trust, this is the second time in two years the Australians are helping us. In 2017 they donated USD14 100 which we used to furnish five primary schools in Bubi District. They were impressed with the way we carried out the project, overall aims, objectives and our modus operandi.

All of our projects are designed according to schools’ needs and letters of assistance we often receive from schools. In other cases, school-heads directly approach us for help and sometimes we identify schools through our partners who have the experience in living and working as educators in certain schools with abject conditions.

As we speak, we have a compilation of several schools on the waiting list. Some schools do not have adequate furniture while some have dilapidated infrastructure. We therefore appeal to various funding and corporate bodies for support to reach out to these schools with provisions of furniture, building of classrooms, sports equipment and sanitary wear and other educational materials as we run various projects simultaneously.

For more details visit: http://childrensvoicezimbabwe.org/

The Collin Nyabadza Children’s Voice Charitable Trust in financial need

The Collin Nyabadza Children’s Voice Charitable Trust (CNCVCT) is seeking financial assistance to finish a classroom block worth $25 000 at Seshawe Primary School in Bubi District, Zimbabwe. The organisation needs $10 000 to finish the project that was started in 2016.

“We are kindly appealing to well-wishers for assistance to finish a classroom block that is already at roofing level. We need money to purchase the roofing material, furniture for a project aimed at benefiting 300 children,” said the director Collin Nyabadza

The CNCVCT is a Bulawayo based NGO that strives to ensure that children in Zimbabwe get an opportunity to attend school in a conducive and safe environment. The Trust provides grants to poor rural schools to build proper infrastructure, provision of water and sanitation among other educational needs.

According to the director, the project came about in response to a need they identified on their first encounter with the school when they visited to donate some educational materials.

“One of our board members had visited the school to donate some educational materials that we had sourced from the U.K. It was then, that we noticed the dilapidated and unsafe structure which children were learning under. We then decided to build a block and funds allowing we are wish to build two more blocks after the ongoing project,” said Nyabadza

He added “After the completion of this project, we are going to build two more blocks and install a fence around the premises to protect the school from possible burglaries. This will also allow the school to establish a market garden as a self-help project. The idea is to help create a favorable teaching and learning environment for children. We want to see the children enjoy attending school.”

The Trust expressed its sincere gratitude to its various stakeholders, sponsors, partners, parents and well-wishers who have supported them from the commencement of the project up to date.

“We are highly indebted to a Canadian organisation, SwiftLink, for its continued financial assistance. Special thanks to our partners, local authorities who have experience in working in disadvantaged communities and possessing vast knowledge in local schools systems.

“Parents have also played an instrumental role during the project through molding bricks, providing other locally available materials such as river sand and paying the builders. They are a good community to work with and this makes us even more determined to assist them,” said Nyabadza

The CNCVCT’s director also mentioned that apart from the building project, they have been offering the school authorities mentor ship in aspects such as mobilizing parents, resources and other aspects of school leadership.

For more details visit: http://childrensvoicezimbabwe.org/

Get involved

In 2017, we pioneered a project that was funded by the Calgary South Rotary Club in Alberta, Canada. They gave us CAD5 400 grant to purchase high quality classroom furniture for three disadvantaged primary schools in Matobo District. These schools included Lingwe, Marinoha and Zamanyoni Primary Schools.

As schools opened today in Zimbabwe, we would like to wish all the best of luck to all school children. In as much as schools have opened, there are various schools in bad state especially those located in rural areas. Some children cannot afford to go to schools, or the schools don’t have proper infrastructure for a better learning environment.

As an organisation, we have ongoing initiatives to support the disadvantaged schools in Zimbabwe. These initiatives include construction of classroom blocks, donation of textbooks, sports kits and many more. Your involvement can go a long way in keeping these children in school, creating a safe learning environment and ensuring they receive quality education.

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The Book donation project

In May 2018 we collaborated with two British charities and donated 50 000 books to a total of 42 primary and secondary schools and two local universities. We approached Books Abroad, a Scottish based charity for help with books. They responded positively and began mobilizing the books across the U.K. The Scottish charity also mobilized the funds for shipping. Another U.K. based charity Sands of Faith Child Foundation then came on board and provided a grant of £3 000 to help towards shipping.

The consignment was then shipped directly to Bulawayo where we received it. The recipients included Bubi, Bulawayo, Imbizo, Matobo, Tsholotsho, Umzingwane and Mutasa Rural Districts. This remains one of our biggest projects so far as it helped impact a total of 19056 (nineteen thousand and fifty-six) children. Two local universities, the National University of Science & Technology (N.U.S.T.) in Bulawayo and the Lupane State University in Lupane Rural District were the tertiary institutions that received the books which if purchased locally would have cost a total of USD 500 000 or more. 

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