BULAWAYO mayor Martin Moyo yesterday hosted a luncheon for underprivileged students from Luveve Training School for Girls at a local hotel as part of the 2013 Mayor’s Christmas Cheer Fund.
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Addressing the girls, Moyo said underprivileged children should be exposed to places they view as a preserve for the rich as a way of inspiring them to better their lives and escape from poverty.
“We brought you here to inspire you so that you leave this place with an ambition. The thought is to bring the best out of these children,” he said. Moyo said the girls should drop the dependency syndrome of being inspired by getting married to rich men and learn to stand on their own.
“It is wrong and out of fashion for girls to say I’m beautiful and a rich man will come to marry me.”
Using hotel staff and journalists as examples, Moyo said the girls should be inspired to get jobs so that they could be able to fend for themselves.
“You need to show that there is something special about you and live to desire to be like other people,” he said. Seventeen other charitable institutions benefited from this year’s Mayor’s Christmas Cheer Fund. These are Rail Stein Old People’s Home; Edith Duly Nursing Home; Ekuphumuleni Old People’s Home; Entumbane Old People’s Home; Thembiso Children’s Home; Emthunzini Wethemba Children’s Home; King George IV; Thorngrove Hospital; Percy Ibboston; Luveve Training School for Girls; St Francis Children’s Home; John Slaven; John Smale; Bulawayo Island Hospice; Haven Trust; Muscular Dystrophy Association of Zimbabwe and Butic.
