Girl Child Network Worldwide Blog

Dear friends

Those joining us for the first time please scroll dowm for updates .Thank you so much for donating to Tare Appeal. Our total donated through Pay Pal to date is £ 1041,38 and Sunday 13 September had 6 people donating a total of £47,46.

I received an email from someone with auditing experience who wants to volunteer and this is most welcome especially if we can have someone coming after a week to our offices to help us keep a check on all donations too Tare Appeal .Also before a formal presentation of the donations it is most helpful if we can have someone auditing

Our efforts are now on getting Tare a visa because so far there has been an appeal sent to Home office after Tare and her mum were refused a visa.

We have issued a statement on free volunteers we are looking for .Just to set the record straight and in writing .No amount on funds donated for Tare Appeal will be used to pay volunteer allowances and to that effect GCNW has issued a press statement as below and please feel free to send this around.

Girl Child Network Worldwide has made an appeal to well wishers and everyone who is committed to come and assist Taremeredzwa Mapungwana raise at least 10 000 pounds for her hospital,sccomodation ,transport,medication and for any other emergencies before ,during and after her operation at a hospital in London on 10 October 2009 to offer free volunteering .

GCNW started Tare Appeal with four volunteers and the list seems to be growing daily .There have been numerous calls from Zimbabweans in UK to volunteer but most of the volunteers are demanding between 5 and 15 pounds per day before they can offer help .Some of them said they could offer Tare and her mother accomodation at 10 pounds per night and trasport at 57 p per mile which is out of their reach given the fact that their situation during and after the operation is not known and so may need them to save some money for any eventualities .

Betty Makoni founder of GCNW has said,`Under normal situations volunteers can be paid and reimbursed any expenses they may incur but in our case we do not have any money to give volunteers as all of the donations that have gone through our pay pal system show that for everyone donating this is hard earned cash and every pound is marked Tare Appeal and so GCNW holds all funds in trust and cannot pay even its volunteers for any expenses .So our appeal goes to out to free volunteers who can offer services at their own expenses .. A press conference is scheduled where all donations and emails as well as photocopied cheques will be presented to Tare and her mother in the presence of everyone `

This statement follows a meeting between Betty Makoni and some volunteers who were concerned about use of their telephones and emails without being refunded .

Under the UK Law volunteers are supposed to be compensated reasonable amounts but GCNW policy stipulates that funds donated in situations like Tare`s are 100% given to her and the organisation donates staff labour to do all paperwork and heavily relies on free volunteers

Warmest regards

Hazviperi Betty Makoni
President And Founder
Girl Child Network World Wide

Dear all,

I have good news that at least £415 was deposited into our Girl Child Network Worldwide Pay pal account for Tare Appeal by 17 individuals on 12 September 2009.  Thanks Leanne Grossman our Trustee in USA who sends us all individual pay pal conformation of receipt of funds hourly.  Our total amount for 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 September is £1003,82.  We have a total of £1290 in pledges.

We have good news from Australia and USA.  Girl Child Network worldwide donor in USA who would want to remain anonymous has pledged 1000 US$ which is 645£ and Zimbabwe Arise in Australia will have an event where they hope to donate £645 as well and so our total pledges come to £1290

Please note the amount in our Excel sheet does not include 50£ from Finland, various amounts transferred into Girl Child Network Trust Fund UK account, and many cheques that have been posted to our office in West Cliff in Essex.  Monday 14 September will see us do work on Western Union, cheques and checking with our bank manager at Lloyds to see what the exact amounts are and the depositors.  Don’t forget to email us when you or friends send money through our bank or by cheque as we want you to join this group email list so we can keep posted on your efforts.

I have received many phone calls and I must say it has been painful for me and my team, Priscialla, Munashe, and Barbara, to hear shaken voices, and we could see tears and tears dropping from many who called.  My message to you is that most of you should feel happy that at least by making a donation and contacting us you have played a very important part role, and so rest assured that as Girl Child Network Worldwide we are working round the clock to make sure Tare gets here to UK to get treatment.  I have been following communications by one of us on this email list by initial W who has consulted on Tare condition with an expert doctor for such conditions in USA, and I got relieved to know that this condition can be corrected and Tare can be back in shape again.  The hospital and doctor who pledged to help Tare are there in the UK, and what remains is a visa and funds for the hospital and her mum stay here in UK.  And so our efforts should be on these remaining items.

I will email you a link from Munashe on how you can join as a volunteer and donate in kind.

For those who donated on 12 September through PayPal, we have captured all your details and welcome you to our updates on Tare.  Please scroll down or view my other blog posts to get more updates.

From all of you who have donated I have one story that touched me.  There is a  woman  who wanted to donate 50 pounds but when her husband noticed this he gave her an extra 50 pounds, and so the couple donated 100 pounds and now the couple has the highest donation to Tare so far outside the pledges.

I have also noticed that many women and girls don’t frequent the internet as much as men do, and so we will do all we can to send out a flyer with a link to our website.  And I have noticed that although all information on how to make a donation is there on our website, because of our busy schedules many are doing a shortcut to call, and so we may need a volunteer who can help those finding hard to see which best way to send a donation.

I hope to keep in touch, but it looks in just a week we have closed on close to 2000 pounds, and if we intensify our Appeal we can hit the 10 000 pounds mark.

Tisanete as we have one fifth of the funds in a week now.

Thank you all !!!!!!!!!!!

Hazviperi Betty Makoni

Dear Friends of Tare,

I would like to thank you sincerely for all the donations you made through PayPal.  Today we have £509,99 raised through your donations, and for Tare no donation is too big or small.

A lot of questions have come to us, and one of them was who are you.  I am Muzvare Betty Makoni, Founder of Girl Child Network Worldwide and Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe.  In May 2009 I was featured as a CNN hero, and Prisciallah and I took all the donations sent by CNN viewers for a uniform project which allowed us to send over 1500 uniforms, jackets and many things for girls.  As girls went round distributing, that is when they sent me an appeal and said Muzvare Tare is in this situation.  When I looked at the photos I shed tears and just thought about how disease had conquered and overpowered such an intelligent girl.  I took the story to my Facebook, and Munashe Godo, a colleague of mine and Founder of Zimbabwe teachers Network, said this case would not get help if it remained on my Facebook.  She then approached Barbra who told us she had friends in the media.  Then today Munashe and Barbra have brought us to you.  I read every comment that was being passed today, and I said, “After all, men and women like you have the heart.”, and that’s why I am emailing you to say thank you!  Many requested if donations will reach Tare, and the only way is for my team to keep you posted.
 
Tare’s date of operation is 10 October, and as soon as she arrives you will see us physically handing over all the donations you sent to us because in this Trust account in the UK no one can take funds for salary or admin as the funds are strictly for girls who are very vulnerable.

… hats off for a job well done, and something donated with trust and big heart means much more.  Also you are free to remain on this list for updates, but please know we will never give out your contacts to anyone, and also this elist is there until we are through with the Tare treatment in the UK.
 
Please note that we have 13 global awards for best service delivery to girls, and like always we will do it with all heart and passion, and we are there first when girls need us.

Thanks my team and thanks all for coming aboard …

Hazviperi Betty Makoni