Delta donates US$10k equipment to visually impaire...

Delta donates US$10k equipment to visually impaired students

Patience Muchemwa

Delta Corporation, one of Zimbabwe’s largest beverage companies, has donated laptops, smartphones, headphones, and binding machines worth US$10 000 to Dorothy Duncan Centre, a school for the visually-impaired in Harare.

The donation comes at a time when Zimbabwe is rapidly embracing the digital economy, and it will ensure that visually-impaired students are not left behind.

In presenting the donation, Delta Corporation General Manager Corporate Affairs, Patricia Murambinda, said that the company is committed to doing good in the communities it operates in.

“We support diversity, equity, and inclusion,” she said. “And sometimes, we forget that certain things do happen to us in life unexpectedly. Most of these people I spent time with here, were people like us. They were able to see and then a certain disease develops at an old age then you become blind. And imagine how life can be difficult when you know that you used to see and you can’t see.”

Murambinda added that the donation is intended to help visually-impaired students live normal lives and contribute to society.

“We thank the Rotary Club for assisting us in that regard,” she said.

Anderson Robertson, the Director for Dorothy Duncan Centre, said that the institution recruits an average of eight students per intake.

“We do courses which run for three months and per year, we do three intakes but due to limited resources, we only take an average eight students, because the visually-impaired students need individual attention,” he said.

Robertson added that the school’s aim is to see visually-impaired students become professionals and contribute to society.