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Article added on 15 January 2010
ZANE Australian Fundraising Tour
from http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/5456
ZANE to embark on a fundraising tour for Zimbabwean pensioners (Australia via Singapore)
ZANE (ZIMBABWE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY), a registered charity in the UK, is embarking on a tour to Australia via Singapore in February/March 2010. The purpose of the tour is twofold: we aim to raise the profile of ZANE in that part of the world and to raise funds.
About 3000 Zimbabwean OAP’s (Old Age Pensioners) are helped by various organizations. Some of these people are helped by more than one organization:
•Homes in Zimbabwe provides food support for the old age homes and for SOAP in both Harare and Bulawayo;
•SOAP Harare and SOAP Bulawayo focus on the delivery of food parcels to private homes;
•Senior Citizens Service Bulawayo focuses on medical needs and particularly drugs;
•The Pensioners Fund helps cover drugs and emergency medical costs in Harare and outlying districts and also gives financial support to SOAP Bulawayo and Harare
ZANE, the largest charity, focuses on individual rental payments in Old Age Homes as well as rates and utility payments for people living in private homes. It has raised over £5 million since its foundation in 2002 and provided £800,000 to fund its work in 2008/ 2009. It has distributed some 22,000 charitable grants of fuel, medicines, food and financial support to the needy in 2008/ 2009 – up from 7,000 grants the previous year. Between 2005 and 2009 ZANE distributed £1,077,667 on behalf of Services’ Charities to WW2 veterans and their widows in Zimbabwe.
ZANE has lost no money through corruption since it was founded in 2002 and is the only charity operating in Zimbabwe that gives substantial aid to both the white and the black communities. It relies on private donors.
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