Eunice is from Zimbabwe, but living and working in our benefice. her husband and four children are still in Zimbabwe, where conditions are awful.
With inflation at over 231,000,000% and with the fall in value of the pound, people in Zimbabwe are getting poorer and poorer. 80% live on less than £1 per day and more than half are chronically malnourished.
We started the Eunice Fund before Christmas to try to raise enough money to send a large drum of goods over to Eunice’s family in Zimbabwe and if we could, to bring one or both of her eldest children over to the UK for training. Thanks to all your generous help, we raised £2,000. With this money we managed to send the drum packed with toiletries, food, clothing, exercise books and so on, but were unable to raise the huge sums necessary to bring two young people through immigration to the UK. We have therefore passed the remainder (around £1700) to Eunice to be used for the education of all four children in Zimbabwe, for as long as the money lasts. Eunice herself is quite overwhelmed with your response and I enclose an open letter to you all from Eunice - “I would like to say ‘thank you’ to all those who gave to the Eunice Fund.
Zimbabwe at the moment is going through the worst economic downturn, in which the Zimbabwean dollar is equivalent to one trillion British pounds. It’s beyond what words can explain. It is so difficult being a mother of four trying to make ends meet where systems have broken down. The hospitals have closed, schools are closing down because of lack of funds to pay the teachers, and disease is all over because sanitation is not maintained. This is a country where things have really gone wrong and this is why I thank you for your contributions in cash and kind to support my family in such hard times. May the Lord bless you and every hand that has given. This money will be used to pay for the children’s education.
Thank you all very much. Eunice and family.”
Can you help?
Please send donations to Chris Mansfield at The Willows, Rushall Road, Starston, Harleston, Norfolk, IP20 9NE. Telephone 07870 88 0119. Cheques should be made payable to Dickleburgh/Pulhams Benefice and clearly marked on the envelope or on the back for the Eunice Fund.
If you would like to donate through the Benefice on line please follow the link below.