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Runesu Gwidi Masvingo Correspondent
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has donated blankets and foodstuffs worth thousands of dollars to nine children’s homes housing more than 500 underprivileged children across the province.

The donations were made by the First Lady through her Angel of Hope Foundation that has earned acclaim by lending a helping hand to orphans and other underprivileged Zimbabweans countrywide.

She donated 135 blankets, 18 boxes of frozen chicken and another 18 boxes full of primary school textbooks that were given to the Department of Social Welfare for onward transmission to the beneficiaries.

Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Josaya Hungwe last week handed over the donations to beneficiaries on the sidelines of a tour to assess progress in the enshrinement of Trabablas Trail at Masvingo Railway station in honour of President Mnangagwa’s exploits during the liberation struggle when he bombed a Rhodesian locomotive in 1964 as part of terror activities by the famous “rocodile Gang”.

The children’s homes that received donations were Chambuta, Chingele and Chiredzi Christian (all in Chiredzi Distirct), Henry Murray (Masvingo Rural), Ratidzo and Alpha Cottage (Masvingo Urban), Leranzo (Mwenezi) and Copota School of the Blind in Zimuto communal lands.

Senator Hungwe said the donation by the First Lady showed that the country’s First Family cared for the welfare of the people, particularly those living in difficult circumstances.

“This shows that the President Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa and the First Lady are caring leaders with the plight of the nation at heart,’’ he said.

He said hailed the First Family for being exemplary, saying such philanthropic work was anathema within the country’s opposition political parties who spend most of their time fighting for posts.

Early this year, the First Lady visited Bopoma Children’s Home in Zaka where she announced the donation of television sets and decoders to several children’s homes across the province.