"TENDAYI"

Tendayi Madzimure works fulltime for VANA.  Tendayi is a former school teacher who would leave about 3am to ride his bicycle for 60km to get to his school.  In January of 2008 he was employed by VANA to help oversee the day to day development of the orphanage.  Tendayi does not see his role at VANA as a job but as a calling from God.  He is the Chairman of the VANA Board in Chivhu and is a member of the  United Assembly in Africa (Chivhu) Church.  Tendayi has a fathers heart and loves to help the children in the “VANA Outreach Program” write their letters back to their sponsors, he also helps them in the afternoons after school with their homework.