Imagine if you were born in prison and for 4 years had never left, or had seen someone come from 'outside' to visit you. You have no toiletries or adequate clothing, and your prison mother's meagre food leaves you both hungry and cold. Tadiwa did not have to imagine because this was reality.
She now spends her day at the Chikurubi Day Care Centre, receives two meals of her own each day, has a new dress, and under the loving care of Christian teachers, is having fun singing, drawing and playing.
Chikurubi Day Care Centre operates within the grounds of the maximum security prison and is there to welcome little ones between the ages of 9 months and 6 years to a place of fun and safety. They are the babies and toddlers of incarcerated women who are serving their sentences. Some of these little ones have been born in prison and know no other life. Others accompany their mothers at the tender age of 2 or 3 years into prison, both of them being shunned and abandoned by their families. So it is delightful to hear the laughter and singing that radiates from the Day Care Centre during the day and to see the joy on the faces of the little ones, previously ignored and discarded in disgrace.
Both the pre-schoolers and babies are given breakfast and lunch each day and are stimulated through a variety of activities appropriate to their age. The playground is a favourite of the children as is the art and craft that the teachers prepare.
Meal time at Chikurubi Day Care Centre
The Christmas outing to a children's theme park is anticipated many months before and it is wonderful to see the children running free and uninhibited through the park.
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| The children at their Christmas outing to a local theme park. We need your help to continue to provide for these children. |
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