Tare admitted in hospital

Dear friends of Tare

Tare is in hospital now  and she has seen her doctor who offered to operate on her for free .We only paid for hospital fees and other surgeons and services .We will know how much all this exactly costs after the treatment .

My collegue Prisciallah and I spent the last two days with the medical team who are going to help Tare .We are all impressed with their determination to help.Personally I feel Tare is in safe hands and all we must do is to support Tare and mum during the whole process.

Admittedly her condition was let to deteriorate but it looks the team work we saw at the hospital will go a long way in helping Tare .I have faith and hope !!! I  am  also very angry and disappointed with how her referral was handled in Zimbabwe and South Africa and then how bureaucracy delayed a trip to a doctor who had offered to help .

Today we announced that after doctors did an assessment on Tare she was admitted into hospital a week earlier than we planned and for each day Tare is in hospital the charge is 500 pounds.

Also the scan has revealed more information and it is now certain that the doctor may take more time to prepare Tare for operation as well as do a lot after the operation .No date has been given for the operation  but it looks the doctor and his team plan to move swiftly.

Tare is appealing for more donations  given the latest developments and there is no doubt that treatment will need more time and resources and so  this end we have put a donation box in case some of you want to donate directly to Tare.Also Girl Child Network Worldwide has made a decision to accept donations from 5 October 2009 and please visit www.girchildnetworkworldwide.org for how best you can donate.

Some of you called and wanted to visit Tare and she is in Royal London Hospital,White Chapel Street ,E1 1BB ,4th Floor AW4 ,Room 23 . Please note that only two people at a time are allowed in the room and there is need to coordinate the visits .Cameras are not allowed .Journalists who want to cover Tare must contact the hospital Press office and make direct arrangements.

I have attached some photo updates and after we gave Tare and her mum all the pay pal statements and all cheque photocopies  Tare took a pen and wrote a letter to you all .I will scan and send it to you .She was saying thank you all .Payments for some costs has commenced and an accounting system is now in place to monitor use of funds and start disbursements to cover some medical costs.

After talking to mum to Tare and having listened to their story I felt anger and sat down to write a poem like I always do .The poem attacked and pasted below here and entitled Shame on them all was written by me
Tare is in this condition because some people cared less.

When I just reflected on everything I saw and heard since Tare arrived here its a big shame on them all Shame on them all. 

(Dedicated to Taremeredzwa Nomatter Mapungwana  and other children who are struggling to have health and education in Zimbabwe and world over) 

Oh Shame, and a big shame on them  all

Them and those and these ones

Who demanded cash and not life

Who demanded cash from a cashles girl

To a life so tattered by a tumour, so aggressively moving

Tare a girl so totally talented,  once in tact 

Shame on them and those and these ones

Them who demanded a devilish  two hundred and  fifty  green papers 

Not two hundred fifty lives

Those who billed a cashless teacher

Two hundred and  fifty fold than her earnings 

Shame on them leaders who quarell for a decade

Not over health for  children ,not their education

Those who bicker ,bully and baffle the poor children

Those and these ones who feed their overfed stomachs

Who overdose their health and underdose the poor children

Shame on them and shame ,shame ,shame !!!!!!! 

Shame on you and you and you and all of you

Who denied  freedom to move and  to manoeuvre 

Denied even a  reappeal  and plea to life

That one appeal  to save that one life

The life  known is granted once

Shame on you who denied and delayed whatever reasons

Shame on those heaps and heaps of paper that deny saving lives

Shame on those offices and those chairs

Shame on those printers that printed the  denial !!!!! 

Salutation to those surgeons who from afar hear the cry

Salutation one after another to this our one  surgeon

Who with generosity of heart give a life and not a bill

Who with no bill make double bill unto himself

Ordinary citizens doing extraordinary service to non citizens 

Salutation to those who  from their two pounds  send fifty  pence

Those who qued  and transferred to unknown

Those who moneygrammed whatever gramme

Those who by pay pal made Tare their pal

Those who  chequered a life and signatured it

Salutation one after another 

Salutation to those who with their feet walk for a life

Salutation newsmakers who make news to save a life

Dancers and DJs who entertain to save a life

Airline that airlifted and abled this  

Salutation to these and those

Trusted in their Trusts of Deeds  with these funds

Who take them all and leave no dime for self

Those who twenty four seven work for life saving dime 

But shame on them all 

Shame on this  one and that one

Shame on these ones and those ones

Shame on him and  her

Shame on them who witnessed the shame and chose not to say

Shame and a big shame too on them all !!!!!! 

This poem was written by Hazviperi Betty Makoni and dedicated to Taremeredzwa Nomatter Mapungwana ,a girl who has fought for five years to stem out a tumour that so aggressively has conquered her life