Education Zimbabwe Project #66850

Send a child to school

by Harvesters in Sport Trust

Project Report | May 22, 2025
Send a child to school May 2025 Report

By Hatiatyi P. Kwenda | Project Leader

Student illustrating

SEND A CHILD TO SCHOOL

Having all our high school children in one place has helped us coordinate their remedial classes. But this has paused a new dilemma. The need for a dedicated and affordable transport service to take the children and from school.

EDUCATION and SPONSORSHIP

In a third world setting like ours, education is a key area for self-reliance and emancipation.

Through our Social work office children in really desperate situations are afforded an opportunity to use education as an outlet to literacy and self-reliance.

Education is not a free service. And sending the children to cheap and poorly run schools has proved a costly exercise.

To avoid wasting resources we decided to work with a school whose running we are well versed with and a school that understands the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children.

All our high school children are now enrolled at Westway College.

Weekly progress reports are being produced, and it helps us see how we can assist the children in their difficult home settings.

Sending them to a good all round school has come with an added cost of transport.

The returns are there for all to see but to get good results and good kids progress we now have to bear an extra cost, transport.

We are grateful for the support we have been getting to enable us to keep the children in school. And we continue to crave for your help and involvement in making this program a success and something that can help 100s of children in the future.

We will continue to work on our model to make it cost effective but an effective learning centre for the children.

. It is our hope to find sponsors that will assist by partnering with Harvesters in Sport Trust (HIS) through adopting a child so that every child is afforded the basic necessity and opportunity in life.

As highlighted in the previous report having agricultural projects can help us mitigate against the high deficits as we continue to work on helping as many children to get a basic education and perhaps give each a pathway to future success.

The primary school children are all attending classes, an improvement from last year when a lot used to absent themselves.

The first term has been a great success. The second term has just begun. We need to find new money to get second term fees sorted out for both primary and high school.

MOBILE LIBRARY

The mobile library needs new books. Textbooks and the like to help cater for the growing interest among children. A reading culture is a must and is a winner. The children are developing a keen interest in reading. This is shaping how they use their free time.

CONCLUSION

Seeing children improving in their classwork and general life has been a delight. We, however, need consistent funding to continue to enjoy the results.

In class

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Jan 24, 2025
Send a Child to School January 2025 Report

By Hatiatyi P. Kwenda | Project Leader

group photo primary school kids

SEND A CHILD TO SCHOOL

We have started the year in full force with most of the children back at school, however, our finances are still crippled as a result some children have not yet fully been placed.

EDUCATION and SPONSORSHIP

We provide education sponsorship for seventeen Primary school students learning at Kuwadzana Primary School and thirteen high school students, at various institutions.

In 2024 all the high school students were at Divine Foundation Christian College but due to really poor results, we decided to move them to different institutions and introduce a tutoring program through Westway College one of the new schools we are now using to help our students upgrade themselves.

The primary school students will be tutored in the community while the high school students will have to travel to Westway initially fortnightly on the weekends and the program will grow from there.

A term now essentially needs $3 900.00 in school fees to cater to all students. We need to find new helpers to ensure that in 2025 none of our students miss out on learning opportunities.

Stationery demands a further $1 500.00 per given term.

We will need to raise allowances for tutors as well. These have become critical given how left behind some of the students are.

Our finances are still crippled, and as a result, some children have not yet been fully placed in school. We require and are appealing to sponsors to donate towards the education and development of these young spiring lives. We hope to find sponsors that will assist by partnering with Harvesters in Sport Trust (HIS) through adopting a child so that every child is afforded the necessities and opportunities in life. We hope to resuscitate our finances through engaging and partnering with sponsors for our lined-up projects and other fundraising ideas like the possibility of sourcing funds to commence on the Horticulture commercial farming project in Darwendale to ensure a continued, steady, sustainable, and smooth running of operations, and enhancing food security and support for vulnerable populations like our own orphans. We are hopeful that Horticulture will take shape soon funds permitting.

MOBILE LIBRARY

This year we are introducing the mobile library it is supposed to run concurrently with the study sessions commencing this month for all of the students we sponsor, to ensure they pass. We Hope the purpose for this initiative of ensuring assistance with the student’s studies as they go back to school in 2025 will finally yield results.

We need to acquire metal trunks for storing our purchased equipment and to protect books from gathering dust or rats in the cabin. There is an urgent need for the library to be up and running for the sake of the children’s pass rate. There is a need for the children to be introduced to a culture of reading to assist them in their academics through supervised studies.

CONCLUSION

We look forward to many fundraising ideas and initiatives this 2025, to see the organization's finances boosted to ensure the program's sustainability without which it cannot be run. We are grateful for the successful running of the children’s program so far, and hope to usher it to another level come January

Group photo high school kids

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