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Takudzwa Chitsiga Sports Reporter
WITH just 10 days to go before the 2016 Homeless World Cup gets underway, Team Zimbabwe are still struggling to find sponsors to bankroll their trip to Glasgow, Scotland, for this annual global football event.

The Homeless World Cup is a unique, pioneering social movement which uses football to inspire homeless people to change their own lives.

The event also uses football to energise and empower people who are homeless, marginalised or socially excluded to change their own lives.

It (The Homeless World Cup) is a gathering of over 70 nations who include Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon, Namibia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Germany, Australia, England, Portugal, France, South Korea, Zimbabwe and many more.

This year’s Homeless World Cup will be staged in Glasgow from July 10-16 and Zimbabwe have already been invited to take part in this big global event with their team scheduled to leave for Scotland next Wednesday.

But by yesterday, Team Zimbabwe for the Homeless World Cup was still frantically trying to raise funds for their airfares to Scotland despite having held a fundraising dinner dance at local hotel on Thursday last week where a number of companies and individuals made pledges amounting to $6 000, which is way short of the budgeted figure of $20 000 for the trip.

And Team Zimbabwe’s manager Tendai “T-Buns” Zhakata yesterday indicated that “nothing much” has come their way in the form of the money which was pledged at last Thursday’s fundraising dinner dance in Harare.

“We are still struggling to raise the required funds for the team’s airfares to Scotland as nothing has come through our coffers despite us having the findraising dinner dance in Harare last Thursday.”

He has called on the sponsors, who made some pledges during their fundraising dinner dance to honour them.