Patrick Secker (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House notes that:

(1)

a group of dedicated Australians has established the Zimbabwe Outreach Program and Orphanages Mutare (ZOPOM) Foundation;

(2)

the Murwira Orphanage caters for children from a few months old to twelve years of age in Mutare, an area of desperate need in Zimbabwe where one in five children are orphans and 100 babies become HIV positive every day;

(3)

Paula Leen, a 74 year old United States citizen, single-handedly runs the Murwira Orphanage and her outreach program feeds over 2,000 destitute people a month;

(4)

the ZOPOM Foundation in Australia under the umbrella of the Global Development Group aims to fund Paula Leen’s work with donations;

(5)

the ZOPOM Foundation provides Australians with a chance to assist in a small way with all funds going directly to the Murwira Orphanage and Outreach program; and

(6)

the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe is presently so critical that the immediate ZOPOM Foundation aim is to urgently purchase food from South Africa to send to the Murwira Orphanage.

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