Zim Gossip Modelling urgency director ‘Catwalk’ Mercy Mushaninga showed her golden heart by reaching out to a widow in Glen Norah.
Along with her team of student models they filled up a minibus and headed for Glen Norah on the afternoon of Friday 02 May 2014.
Accompanied by a professional painter they were armed with painting tools and paint kindly donated by Malaika Mushandu when she heard of Mercy’s outreach.
The models some of them young primary school kids were excited to make a difference in someone else’s life and hope to do it again in the future.
“Not only are we teaching these kids to walk on the ramp only but also to give to the needy,” commented Mercy, “we are mentoring them to make it a lifestyle and not to just wait until they are beauty queens to do charity work.”
The widow who stays with her two sons, two daughters and four grandchildren was thrilled with the kind gesture.
She embraced the gifts that the models brought for her and to her, the freshly painted house was like as if someone had bought her a mansion.
Mercy has a soft heart for widows and orphans that is what moved her to scout for needy widows starting with Glen Norah where she grew up.
She said, “We have just broken ground in our move to help people in communities, our goal is to continue this and make it a lifestyle for all the models who pass through the hands of Zim Gossip.”
Part of the society has never embraced modelling associating it with mischief and Mercy has proven that models can be mentored into better people in society, as the saying goes, ‘teach them while they are still young’.