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The Pillow Fight project co-ordinators and co-founders of With Love Foundation Chenaimoyo Mudede (left) and Lynnette Mahlaba preparing soup for under-privileged children in Mbare last week

Entertainment Reporter
THE Pillow Fight held at Old Hararians Sports Club on Saturday flopped as only 400 people turned up for the event, after the organisers lined up 10 times as many pillows for an expected 5 000 fighters. “We failed to break the record because we had a crowd of between 400 and 600.

“I don’t have the exact figure at the moment because we are still to ascertain how many people showed up,” Lynnette Mahlaba, With Love Foundation co-founder and project co-ordinator said.

According to Lynnette each pillow costs US$2 and this means the organisation spent US$8 000 on the pillows when ironically they wanted to raise US$10 000 to buy a mobile kitchen soup.

“We still have the pillows and we are planning to hold another pillow fight before year end. We are happy that this was the first time that the event was held in Africa,” she said.

This means that the Guinness Book of Records on Pillow Fights still stands at 3 706 after people fought concurrently on November 14, 2008, at Butlins in Minehead, Somerset, England.

Zimbabwe, having been a preserve of children playing mock house, Harare’s With Love Foundation could have done well if they had advertised the event for at least a month in advance.

That said, the pillow fight was aimed at fundraising for With Love Foundations’ programmes that benefit the underprivileged, orphaned, vulnerable children and provide publicity for the organisation at national and international levels.

The With Love Mobile Soup Kitchen provides free healthy, nutritious and appetising meals for school children and marginalised Zimbabwean communities beginning with Mashonaland Central province, Masvingo and Matabeleland provinces.