Zane Australia
The charity that the ride is donating all fund to is ZANE. They support elderly people in Zimbabwe who have been so badly impacted by the economic turmoil of the last 10 years. They provide medical assistance, food, essential items and friendship to the elderly residents stuck in financial hardship. Below are some of the people they have been able to impact with their help..
Ian and Alan
Brothers Ian and Alan retired after full working lives both owning a home and “a little nest egg”. Both continued to work after retirement. All their assets and pensions were written off by hyperinflation. When Alan’s wife died they moved into one house but cost increases forced them to sell. They moved into rented accommodation where ZANE found them starving. ZANE moved them into a retirement home and has supported them for eight years. Alan says “but for ZANE we would be underground”.
Bert
After a long career working for the municipality in Harare, Bert had a comfortable life. His hopes, along with his savings and pension, were wiped out when the hyperinflation hit.
Bert now lives in a tiny one-room cottage in Harare and survives on just $150 dollars a month. Such a small amount makes it hard to purchase the healthy food required to keep his chronic diabetes under control. ZANE provides Bert with so much more than financial support.
Our staff in Zimbabwe have become his friends. With no family in the country and coping with the everyday reality of his situation, Bert gets very lonely and frustrated. A regular visit from one of our team, armed with a couple of books and a savoury treat, is a lifeline to Bert and his gratitude is truly humbling.
Obert and Enoch
Orbert and Enoch became good friends when they were in hospital together many years ago after receiving serious injuries by handling anti-personnel mines.
There are thousands of unexploded mines all around the borders of Zimbabwe – a sad leftover from the Chimurenga War of the 1970’s.
“I can go out with Enoch,” says Orbert, “because he understands what I am feeling and he has his arm to get out money for the bus fare or help me drink some water. And my wife… well I am lucky she helps with all the things I cannot do since my (prosthetic) hands broke.”
After meeting ZANE workers these two friends are receiving monthly food packs. We are working in partnership with the HALO Trust to enable Orbert to have new prosthetic hands fitted so that he can manage to eat and drink without relying on friends and family.
Thank you letters sent to zane
George and mary
“No words can describe our thanks to you and to the ZANE donors for all your financial assistance that you have given us with our mother Mrs Helen Briggs.
God is Good in giving us such wonderfully caring people as you and your carers and donors whose concern for others is so praiseworthy and unbelievably kind.
My wife and I will be eternally grateful to you for all your assistance as it was a constant concern to us as to how we were going to continue to look after Mum, ourselves being pensioners and we didn’t have the facilities in our small house in Gwanda, 145 miles from Bulawayo, where there are no functioning medical facilities or hospital. So thanks to your help she spent the last years of her life in comfort and free from worries about finances.
Thank you once again from the bottom of our hearts for all your help. We pray that the Lord will continue to to bless you. I know there are many people who are grateful for all your kindness and concern.
Our fondest regards
George and Mary Briggs”
Tilda
“I want to thank you very much for offering to pay for my rent and medication. It is nice to know that there is someone who cares about the welfare of other people and yet is so far away. I prayed and Jesus heard me from above and you are the answer to my prayer. Indeed you are clothed in compassion and kindness”
Joy
“I am amazed how you always arrive when I am about to give up hope. Thank you so much for your last delivery of groceries. Words fail me.”
