By Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Coca-Cola Women’s LINC Zimbabwe Chapter on Saturday expressed satisfaction with the poultry project it helped resuscitate at Mutemwa Leprosy Centre in Mutoko District of Mashonaland East.
The Coca-Cola Women’s LINC Zimbabwe chapter in July handed over items worth over 500,000 Zimbabwe dollars towards the poultry project at Mutemwa Leprosy Centre.
The items donated to the Centre included 300 points of laying chickens, one and a half tonnes of layers feed, nine 12 litre waterfronts, nine ribbed tube feeders and stress packs to help the centre provide members with the required source of protein and revenue.
“We are happy with the progress so far the poultry project is providing the much-needed protein for all at the centre as well as revenue for other essential needs. The eggs you had for breakfast came from the project,” said Patricia Murambinda, Coca-Cola Women’s Linc Zimbabwe Chapter President and General Manager, Corporate Affairs at Delta Corporation.
The donation came just two months after the Coca-Cola Women’s Linc handed over a fully furnished block of four classrooms and a modern office to Cheuchi Primary School, a satellite-rural school in Makonde district in Mashonaland West.
Father Linus Mukumbuzi, Mutemwa Leprosy Centre Administrator said they were happy to work towards self-sufficiency through farming, rearing poultry, pigs and cattle.
Mutemwa is home to more than 50 elderly residents, including people affected by leprosy, leprosy disability and society outcasts. Mutemwa attends to around 1, 200 outpatients per year and supports others who are homeless and destitute.
The centre provides physical, material, psychological and emotional care to post-leprosy sufferers, the physically and mentally challenged and the needy.
The Women’s LINC is a network of women employed in the Coca-Cola system focused on engaging, inspiring and developing them to drive total business performance and establish a strong reputation as a great place to work for women.
The initiative empowers women so that they can also enable others and influence their environments.
The Zimbabwe LINC chapter draws its membership from The CocaCola Company, Delta Beverages and Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited.
The Coca-Cola Women’s LINC was established to enhance the attraction, engagement and development of female colleagues through opportunities such as industry panels, networking events, mentoring, and community engagement which forms the heart and soul of our operations.
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