Hwange storm: MP appeal for support to reconstruct school, clinic

BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI 

The Hwange West Constituency leadership has appealed for humanitarian assistance to rehabilitate a school, clinic and homes which were on Monday extensively damaged by a hailstorm that left scores of villagers and pupils heavily exposed.

Besides sweeping roofs from homesteads across the vast Ndlovu Village in the outskirts of Victoria Falls, the raging showers coupled with strong winds also wreaked havoc at Ndlovu Secondary School where several classroom blocks were blown away together with the teacher’s cottages and a nearby clinic.

The appeal was made by Robson Salimu who works as the personal assistant of Member of Parliament Godfrey Dube, after conducting an assessment of the damage in the area.

“Fellow citizens, we are currently faced with difficulties as a constituency, (where) the recent hail storms experienced across has left so much damage in our roads infrastructure, education and health,” Salimu said.

“We have been heavily hit as the Hwange family, whereby our Ndlovu Secondary School has been totally destroyed, and so are the teachers Cottages,”

“Roofs in all classrooms, the staff room, all electrical gadgets, teacher’s cottages, school Jojo water tank all blown away and the clinic which is barely 100 meters from the school totally damaged.”

Maternity ward ceiling and roof sheets were ripped off, exposing beds and other medicals.

” We are humbly appealing for donations from all the citizens, churches, business community and political parties across divides, ” he said.

“This is a Constituency disaster and should be looked at with the merit it deserves.

Registry offices were also damaged and some villagers also lost their livestock.

Salimu said those with donations can contact Kachechete Ward councilor Given Moyo (00263 0772462892 or Ndlovu Secondary School head on 0715528519.

Meanwhile, Salimu said they were yet to get feedback from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration regarding the damage on the city’s Victoria Falls – Bulawayo highway road caused by heavy rains that pounded the resort two weeks ago.