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ZIMBABWE PENSIONERS SUPPORT FUND- TRIP REPORT – DECEMBER 2019 – DANIËL & ELZA KOEKEMOER.

2020By Linda January 27, 2020

If it wasn’t so sad it would be comical. Between Bulawayo & Louis Trichardt (Mikado) we saw 9 or 10 broken, stacked, well overloaded trailers, at the roadside, all with collapsed axles and wheels, or in some way disabled by their massive loads. I don’t believe Mr “Venter” had these volumes in mind when he designed these vehicles. He couldn’t have foreseen that the lack of mechanical mastery, a skimpy knowledge of basic physics, a great determination and appalling desperation would combine to ultimately test his equipment at this level.

November 2019 Partial list of Golden Oldies being Supported

2019, Campaigns, UpdatesBy Linda November 22, 2019

For the updated name list of golden Oldies still needing to be adopted.
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October 2019 Trip report – D Austen

2019, UpdatesBy Linda October 23, 2019

With the Solar Light drive and its success, thanks to all Donors and participants, the Units distributed are still very much the talk of the towns centers, bringing communication to loved ones and light once to The African Sun Sets, as was said to me by a great number of folks, in and outside of the centers. They are tired and gatvol. They cannot live on promises not fore filled. Daily and without warning circumstances change, costs spiral out of reach, for not only the older folks, but the basic residents of Zimbabwe. What if any direction is the Country going?

2019 Christmas Adoption update.

2019, Campaigns, UpdatesBy Linda October 15, 2019

It’s that time of the year again and we at the ZPSF would like to be able to make the upcoming Christmas of 2019 extra special for our pensioners. As a Fund we rely solely on donations to do what we do. We receive no funding from any Government organization.

ZPSF TRIP REPORT – JULY/AUGUST 2019

2019, UpdatesBy Linda August 26, 2019

With the recent electricity cuts in Zimbabwe and our successful solar lamp drive, I got a sense of what Florence Nightingale may have felt as she traipsed around the Crimean hospital wards 160 years ago, bringing light to those in darkness, tending to the wounded. Our Zim Pensioners are in darkness and they’re also wounded. They are emotionally, economically, physically and mentally wounded and exhausted with their plight as old folk in Zimbabwe. Many of those I spoke to on this trip are just done with it all. When I asked a fellow in Harare (a successful non- Pensioner), who is normally upbeat and optimistic about the country, how he was? He said, simply “I am tired….”

June 2019 update on the ZPSF

2019, Campaigns, UpdatesBy Linda June 26, 2019

We are in the last stretch before I leave with my other half (Johan Schultz) to go to Zimbabwe for my annual wellness check at all the Homes to see how things are going. This gives me the opportunity to check on special needs / meds requirements. I will also be sorting out the final details for the Solar kits to be distributed shortly all around Zimbabwe to the homes. We have only 95 of the 730 kits that still need to be sponsored, I am speechless and sitting here with tears in my eyes. You are all truly amazing, THANK YOU!!!!.

ZPSF Easter / April 2019 update.

2019, UpdatesBy Linda April 30, 2019

On behalf of the Zimbabwe Pensioner Supporter Fund and our 1350 pensioners we are currently supporting I would like to thank you all once again for your wonderful support. A big thank you to our monthly donors, it is a relief to know that we can count on you. To our once-off and anonymous donors thank you, your open hearts continue to amaze us! The ZPSF would never be able to sustain our regular supply of relief parcels if it were not for donations and support such as yours.

ZPSF February 2019 Trip Report

2019, UpdatesBy Linda March 29, 2019

The tenacity and resilience of these special Pensioners left behind in Zimbabwe is just friggen astonishing! These are people that laugh in the face of adversity. I try to laugh with them but find myself closer to tears than laughter. This trip confused my emotions more than ever. The pit in my stomach was constant. I was sadder than usual but laughed more than usual.

ZPSF update and wishing everyone a prosperous 2019

2019, UpdatesBy Linda January 17, 2019

I would like to firstly take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones a prosperous 2019.

On behalf of the Zimbabwe Pensioner Supporter Fund and our 1300+ pensioners we are currently supporting I would like to thank you all once again for your wonderful support over the past year. A big thank you to our monthly donors, it is a relief to know that we can count on you. To our once-off and anonymous donor’s thank you, your open hearts continue to amaze us! The ZPSF would never be able to sustain our regular supply of relief parcels if it were not for donations and support such as yours.

ZPSF TRIP REPORT OCTOBER 2018 – DANIËL & ELZA KOEKEMOER

2018, UpdatesBy Linda November 13, 2018

It was an interesting trip this……. The election honeymoon is over, the economy plummeted right before our eyes, the Police are back at their roadblocks (Only partly supervised by the military) and there is a dark mood of despair amongst the folk that we spoke to. Many of these poor people are saying they simply don’t have it in them to go through the 2008 crisis again. Many are expecting a worse bout this time around. How much more can they take?