Appeal for education, transport, social support for Miss Raza
- Background
This letter serves to appeal for 1) educational, 2) transport to and from school and 3) rehabilitation, social and other support for Miss Takarangarirwa Daisy Raza, a 9-year-old girl afflicted with Spastic Diplegia, a medical conditional that primarily affects motor control in the legs, since birth at Harare Maternity Hospital. As a result of her medical condition, Miss Raza can hardly maintain steady walking and leg movements resulting in her depending on walking frames to get by at home, school and other social gatherings. Growth in her body is now making it very difficult to sustain her mobility in the present circumstances.
Miss Raza is enrolled at Greystone Park Primary School in Borrowdale doing grade 3 and has been with the school since grade 1 in 2020. Previously, she was enrolled at St Giles Rehabilitation Centre in Milton Park, Harare where she excelled well above her peers in the same age group. As a result, her teachers at St Giles Rehabilitation Centre recommended that she be transferred to a convectional school where she could keep pace with peers in her age group given her love for school and above average performance despite her medical condition.
At some point, Miss Raza’s parents struggled to secure a placement for her at convectional schools probably due to her medical condition. Eventually, the school leadership at Greystone Park Primary School compassionately offered her a place to join their grade 1 class in 2020.
Since then, she has been enrolled at the school and the administration is very supportive and has even considered modifying certain infrastructure at the school in order to better serve Miss Raza, and other children now and in future who may be affected by mobility issues.
- Appeal for Support 2.1. Education
In light of the forgoing, Mr and Mrs Oswell and Tatenda Raza are appealing to individuals and organizations for the following support in order to ensure a relatively smooth schooling and social existence of their first born daughter, Miss Raza:
Miss Raza could benefit immensely by receiving any educational support covering school fees, books support and financial support for extra lessons to help cope with the learning demands of a convectional school.
We estimate that the above can be achieved on an estimated monthly budget of USD45 broken down as:
- USD15 for school sundries and materials, and
- USD30 for qualified extra lessons teacher.
