Dear friends of Tare
Tare is in hospital now and she has seen her doctor who offered to operate on her for free .We only paid for hospital fees and other surgeons and services .We will know how much all this exactly costs after the treatment .
My collegue Prisciallah and I spent the last two days with the medical team who are going to help Tare .We are all impressed with their determination to help.Personally I feel Tare is in safe hands and all we must do is to support Tare and mum during the whole process .Admittedly her condition was let to deteriorate but it looks the team work we saw at the hospital will go a long way in helping Tare .I have faith and hope !!! I am also very angry and disappointed with how her referral was handled in Zimbabwe and South Africa and then how bureaucracy delayed a trip to a doctor who had offered to help .
Today we announced that after doctors did an assessment on Tare she was admitted into hospital a week earlier than we planned and for each day Tare is in hospital the charge is 500 pounds .Also the scan has revealed more information and it is now certain that the doctor may take more time to prepare Tare for operation as well as do a lot after the operation .No date has been given for the operation but it looks the doctor and his team plan to move swiftly .
Tare is appealing for more donations given the latest developments and there is no doubt that treatment will need more time and resources and so this end we have put a donation box in case some of you want to donate directly to Tare.Also Girl Child Network Worldwide has made a decision to accept donations from 5 October 2009 and please visit www.girchildnetworkworldwide.org for how best you can donate .
Some of you called and wanted to visit Tare and she is in Royal London Hospital,White Chapel Street ,E1 1BB ,4th Floor AW4 ,Room 23 . Please note that only two people at a time are allowed in the room and there is need to coordinate the visits .Cameras are not allowed .Journalists who want to cover Tare must contact the hospital Press office and make direct arrangements
I have attached some photo updates and after we gave Tare and her mum all the pay pal statements and all cheque photocopies Tare took a pen and wrote a letter to you all .I will scan and send it to you .She was saying thank you all .Payments for some costs has commenced and an accounting system is now in place to monitor use of funds and start disbursements to cover some medical costs
After talking to mum to Tare and having listened to their story I felt anger and sat down to write a poem like I always do .The poem attacked and pasted below here and entitled Shame on them all was written by me
Tare is in this condition because some people cared less .. when I just reflected on everything I saw and heard since Tare arrived here its a big shame on them all
(Dedicated to Taremeredzwa Nomatter Mapungwana and other children who are struggling to have health and education in Zimbabwe and world over )
Oh Shame, and a big shame on them all
Them and those and these ones
Who demanded cash and not life
Who demanded cash from a cashles girl
To a life so tattered by a tumour, so aggressively moving
Tare a girl so totally talented, once in tact
Shame on them and those and these ones
Them who demanded a devilish two hundred and fifty green papers
Not two hundred fifty lives
Those who billed a cashless teacher
Two hundred and fifty fold than her earnings
Shame on them leaders who quarell for a decade
Not over health for children ,not their education
Those who bicker ,bully and baffle the poor children
Those and these ones who feed their overfed stomachs
Who overdose their health and underdose the poor children
Shame on them and shame ,shame ,shame !!!!!!!
Shame on you and you and you and all of you
Who denied freedom to move and to manoeuvre
Denied even a reappeal and plea to life
That one appeal to save that one life
The life known is granted once
Shame on you who denied and delayed whatever reasons
Shame on those heaps and heaps of paper that deny saving lives
Shame on those offices and those chairs
Shame on those printers that printed the denial !!!!!
Salutation to those surgeons who from afar hear the cry
Salutation one after another to this our one surgeon
Who with generosity of heart give a life and not a bill
Who with no bill make double bill unto himself
Ordinary citizens doing extraordinary service to non citizens
Salutation to those who from their two pounds send fifty pence
Those who qued and transferred to unknown
Those who moneygrammed whatever gramme
Those who by pay pal made Tare their pal
Those who chequered a life and signatured it
Salutation one after another
Salutation to those who with their feet walk for a life
Salutation newsmakers who make news to save a life
Dancers and DJs who entertain to save a life
Airline that airlifted and abled this
Salutation to these and those
Trusted in their Trusts of Deeds with these funds
Who take them all and leave no dime for self
Those who twenty four seven work for life saving dime
But shame on them all
Shame on this one and that one
Shame on these ones and those ones
Shame on him and her
Shame on them who witnessed the shame and chose not to say
Shame and a big shame too on them all !!!!!!
This poem was written by Hazviperi Betty Makoni and dedicated to Taremeredzwa Nomatter Mapungwana ,a girl who has fought for five years to stem out a tumour that so aggressively has conquered her life
Tags: Girl Child Network Worldwide, health access for girls, Tare Appeal
thank you for post.!!