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Members of the Doma community attend a Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries service before they were assisted by Prophet Walter Magaya last Friday

Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya has adopted about 480 Doma people in Mbire District, Mashonaland Central Province, pledging to construct a clinic and school for the reclusive clan whose lifestyle has been caught up in transition between ancient migratory hunting and modern day settlement.

Prophet Magaya deployed more than 10 buses and kombis to Mbire last Friday to bring some of the Doma people to Harare for the first time. Most of them were barefoot and wore tattered clothes.

He accommodated them at his hotel in Waterfalls and bought them clothes as well. In an interview at PHD Ministries in Waterfalls, Prophet Magaya said he would set aside “few millions” towards the improvement of the lives of the Doma people for infrastructure and establish income-generating projects.

Prophet Magaya said he was touched when he read of their plight in one of the weekly newspapers. “What motivated me to help is that they will genuinely appreciate. They will not give me anything in return other than their thank you. I said if they have done this as a newspaper what are we doing as Men of God. Let us do it in a major way. I am building a clinic and a school,” said Prophet Magaya.

“There is also Zambezi River. I want to help them with a fish project and others like soap making, solar panel making which they can do with their own hands. Yesterday, I witnessed one thing; that they are gifted in several areas. They played against my juniors in soccer and won. That is when I realised that sport is one thing that can nullify barriers of language,” he said.

Prophet Magaya identified at least six boys to include in his Yadah FC. He said they had a torrid time trying to introduce the Doma people to modern life. “They were refusing to put on shoes. It is their first time today to wear shoes. They have never used a spoon, water tap, toilet seat. So it is still big a task, but we will assist them for the next seven days while they are here. They did not want to get into a bus all of them. We were expecting many, but they refused. We had to use their headman and community leader,” said Prophet Magaya.

He said they also had a torrid time persuading them to eat food like meat. “Just in the afternoon we were giving them pies and when we told them it was a pie they all refused saying pie in their language means something stolen. I am fencing their homes to protect them from wildlife. It was difficult to walk in a hotel when they saw tiles. They thought it was water,” said Prophet Magaya.

Their traditional leader, Headman Mutyoramwendo, hailed Prophet Magaya for the assistance. “It can only be the work of God that we are getting this assistance. It is rare to get this kind of assistance. We live by hunting, eating honey, fruits so we are quite grateful,” said Headman Mutyoramwendo, whose real name is Mr Biggie Chinembiri.