Hello,

This is just a quick message to let you know that ZET successfully reached the targets of the GlobalGiving Winter Challenge, and as such we now have a permanent page on the GlobalGiving site!

In light of this success we have extended the targets for this current project, and now aim to reach 100 orphans and vulnerable children and provide them with access to the basic legal documents they so desperately need. At present, the current amount raised stands at £2,690, so we are well over half way there - just £2000 short of the new target!

January also saw the first edition of the new monthly newsletter from Trinity Project Trust, whose work your donations are supporting. The following extract explains why their work is so vital:

"Sifiso is a fifteen year old girl who lives in Tsholotsho. She lives with her grandmother Thokozile and her grandfather Ntando. The whereabouts of Sifiso’s parents are not known, they left her when she was a month old. The sad thing is that when they left her, she did not have a birth certificate and up until now she doesn’t. Sifiso is in grade 5 instead of being in form 2 because she does not have a birth certificate. All along she was not going to school as schools refused to enrol her and her grandparents could not do anything to help her.

One day, Thokozile heard of TRINITY PROJECT TRUST, how they have helped and are helping people, and so she decided to go there and talk to them. She came out of the building a happy woman. All the help that she got was free because the TRUST is not there to make money but to save the nation.

Because this is a recent activity, the Trust hasn’t received feedback from Thokozile, but we do hope that in the next issue will let you know if and when Sifiso got her birth certificate."

As well as continuing to support Trinity in these works, we are also planning to send over a number of computers for their IT suite in Bulawayo this year. We currently have 7 computers which have been donated, and will be actively seeking further donations – computers, screens, keyboards etc - which can be sent along with these.

Thank you for your continued support,

Zimbabwe Educational Trust.