Friday 03rd September 2010
We rely almost exclusively on donations to do our work. Some of our funding comes from the corporate sector and some from Shine African Children's Trust fundraising events, but most of it comes from individual donations.
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Shine African Children’s Trust (SACT) was set up to establish and run children’s homes in Zimbabwe. Our first home, in Nyanga in eastern Zimbabwe, is due to open in early 2009.
We are working with local authorities to identify orphaned children, up to 5 years old and with no visible means of support. Many of these children will be victims of the HIV AIDS scourge that is taking a terrible toll in much of Africa.
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The Shine African Children’s Trust (SACT) was registered as a UK charity in November 2007. (UK Registered Charity No. 1121650)
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Having registered as a charity and set up a Board of Trustees in the UK, we needed to do the same in Zimbabwe. We are now in the process of doing that, and once we have permission from the authorities there, we will proceed with establishing the children's home, and at the same time start implementing a range of fund-raising activities in the UK.
The plan is to purchase a plot of land and construct a village of mud huts on it. A suitable plot has become available near Bonda Mission in Nyanga, which would be ideal in terms of the children's education and medical needs. The huts would have electricity and water, as well as providing familiar surroundings for the children. Over time, and if staff and funds are available, another village would be built nearby.
For more detail on all this, do take a look at Mazzy's Blog.
Once the fund-raising activities start, which we hope will be in a few months time, we shall also start looking for a patron.
The first village will be called 'Malaika', which means "little angels".
Read the Shine African Children's Trust blog.
Mazzy Shine, Shine African Children's Trust’s founder, gives a unique personal account of Shine African Children's Trust activities.