Youths under Zoe Empowers Programme have donated assorted items worth K1.4 million to patients at Mponela Rural hospital in Dowa to help ease some of the challenges the patients are facing at the facility.
The donated items included soap, sugar, soap, soya pieces and hygiene materials such as trash bins and mops.
The donation is part of the proceeds from 96 youth groups that graduated from the Zoe Empowers Programme with various skills as part of this year’s Day of the African Child commemoration.
the hospital. | Kondwani Kandiado
Zoe Empowers country director McLean Harawa said on Saturday after the handover that the donation was in line with the organisation’s thematic area of health and hygiene.
“The youth earlier cleaned the hospital surroundings before making the donation,” he said.
A youth from Kasalika Ambassadors Empowerment Group, Edward Mkhosi, said they embarked on the initiative as part of extending the kind gesture that the organisation showed them with others in need.
“This donation is one way of giving back to the community after benefitting from Zoe Empowers Programme.
“We mobilised resources after observing some of the challenges that children in the paediatric ward were facing.”
On his part, Dowa District Council environmental health officer James Mtonga thanked the youth for the intervention at the hospital.
Zoe Empowers with support from well-wishers in the United States trains orphans and vulnerable youths in various skills such as tailoring, welding, cosmetology and agriculture technologies
