By Brian Muyambo
Gweru- Zimbabwean billionaire’s wife and a philanthropist Tsitsi Masiyiwa launches a major international healthcare initiative aimed at saving lives of babies and their mothers across Sub-Saharan Africa.Through her family her international family foundation, Delta Philathropies Tsitsi collaborated with other world philanthropic partners like Gates Foundation, Children’s Investiment Fund Foundation (CIFF) among others to establish the Beginnings Fund.Taking to his social media, philanthropist, businessman Strive Masiyiwa celebrated and offered his unwavering support for her committement towards this project.He highlighted that she took more than a year to make this initiative possible.“I have watched her work tirelessly for more than a year mobilizing philanthropic partners for this initiative,” he wrote.Strive revealed that her initiative was inspired by a tragic story of a woman who lost her triplets in a hospital. An incident which triggered the fund’s founding members to take action.“Compassion is nothing if it cannot move you to action, and where possible to act in a strategic, sustainable way, sometimes with other who share your vision and heart to help where it’s needed,” Masiyiwa wrote praising Tsitsi for her dedication.Whilst the foundation aims to serve in Sub-Saharan African countries, its impact in Zimbabwe is expected to be noteworthy, especially in under-equiped hospitals where the need is alarming.Working with several Ministries of Health in the focus countries in this initiative, Tsitsi is helping ensure that mothers and more newborn babies have a fighting chance as well as receive the care they deserve.In his post Masiyiwa alluded to the work that Tsitsi is doing as a call for the others to stand tall and act regardless of how small is the effort as the small act of compassion yield effects of miracles.“You can do something. However small. Go next step. Move with compassion, a child offered is lunch. Jesus used it to perform a miracle. There is enough in your hands,”he saidThe other founding partners of the Beginnings Fund include Mohammed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity, The ELMA Philanthropies, Horace W. Smith Foundation and The Patchwork Collective.
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