One of many children helped by Vana Trust is Jane January, who lives with her grandmother and 10-year-old sister in a remote village called Matemai, in Zimbabwe.
Jane’s parents died when she was eight. She and her two sister are being brought up by her grandparents like so many young people in Zimbabwe. Without the help of Vana Trust these girls would not be able to attend school. Jane walks the 10k round trip every day but her younger sister is too ill to attend school. Jane is head girl at St David’s, with ambitions to become a nurse. Her elder sister, Anna, was the first Vana Trust sponsored student to be accepted into a university to train as a teacher.
Nyasha Gwatidzo, our founder, chats with Jane on this video clip. Please excuse the sound quality of the film.
