A Nyanyadzi Primary School teacher has emerged a local hero in his community after he successfully coordinated his class to raise funds and build a house for an old woman from a nearby village.
What started as a normal Family, Religious and Moral
Education lesson for a certain Grade 7 class at Nyanyadzi eventually turned
into a humanitarian gesture as students mobilised their little resources to
build a house for a local 84-year-old widowed granny.
Living with her two orphaned grandchildren, Leon, a Grade 7
pupil and Auditor, in Grade 2, Mbuya Erica Mumera was forced to share a single
hut with them after their other hut was destroyed by heavy rains early this
year.
The class of 37, led by their teacher Nicholas Chinyanya,
all contributed the little money they could afford to construct a house and
today Mbuya Mumera is a proud owner of the well-built structure.
“I am a TB patient and I can not do any hard work because
of my age. Our hut fell early this year so I had to live with my grandchildren
in this house. I was shocked when this good man (teacher) told me that they
want to build a house for us and now they have done it,” she said.
Mbuya Mumera could not hide her emotions recalling that the gesture has been done by pupils as young as her grandchildren.
“I want to thank those children for growing up knowing that
there are those whom they can help despite being that young. Even their teacher
has showed a good heart.”
For Nicholas Chinyanya, the gesture is testimony that
students are learning and practising what they are being taught at school.
“While conducting our lesson the children voted to identify
the neediest within the categories that we had chosen and they identified this
household. It is from that moment that we then mobilised funds to build her this
house,” he explained.
While the gesture may seem not enough in views of some,
what counts is the thought and to borrow the wise words of Noble Price Award
winner Dalai Lama, “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without
them, humanity cannot survive.” ZBC
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