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Meet Tariro Mutanga. ZimSEF's supported her school education for over five years and she's the first ZIMSEF student to reach A Levels. Tariro, the youngest of seven children lives with her mother in the Hactliffe Extension, a settlement area in Harare, her father passed away when she was younger.

Life was very difficult for her growing up and she faced many challenges. Going to school was dream but was a difficulty for her family. We first met Tariro hanging out near the shops in Hatcliffe in 2008 while a soccer tournament was happening in the carpark. Here she is on the left as a young girl.

In 2012 she was given the opportunity to attend school through ZimSEF support and she is now sponsored directly by ZimSEF supporters.

Tariro has excelled at school and is the first person sponsored by ZIMSEF to complete ‘O’ levels and is currently taking on A Levels with the hope to go on to study at University in Social Work.

It wasn't always that way. In a letter to ZIMSEF back in 2012 when Tariro was just starting school in Year 7, she wrote she dreamed of being an air hostess and that she suffered from headaches.

"As for this year, It was a busy year and a tricky one, I am happy that I didn’t face a challenge that I didn’t attack. I am also happy that I did not make friends who are lazy, but hard workers," she said in a recent letter to ZIMSEF, clearly showing the great progress she has made with the opportunity to go to school and be healthy.

ZIMSEF will continue to support children in Hatcliffe, with the generous support of donors and sponsors in Australia to attend quality schooling and fulfil their dreams.

ZIMSEF's Big Gig Fundraiser is being held on Saturday 7th October in Sydney. See details below to join and raise money for Zimbabwean children like Tariro to go to school

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