Angels Palace Organisation was founded by Miss Sharon Mukucha in 2018. Sharon grew up in Zimbabwe’s Chegutu district in Kaguda Village, under the custody of her grandmother who later passed away in 2009. Upon the loss of her dear grandma, Sharon was later transferred to Harare where she has resided ever since. The unassuming founder of APOF, tragically lost her mother when she was just 7 days old. During her childhood she cherished a dream to one day build a home for the orphans, abandoned, neglected and less fortunate children.
As Sharon grew up the dream kept building up as she continuously reminisced that in Kaguda village, some of the children who were of her age missed education, suffered from hunger and lack of affection due to death of parents, breadwinners and guardians. The dream extended to unstoppable pain as she walked everyday in the streets of Harare to and from work seeing so much suffering: dumped, abandoned, neglected children and older people struggling to find food in garbage bins; providing themselves shop verandas as their homes; using cardboard boxes as their blankets and very dirty, small pieces of cloth to cover body essentials as their clothes.
By 2018 Miss Sharon Mukucha felt that the time had come to make her dream come true by giving back to the community of her origins. Instead of waiting for the so-called resources, she decided to come up with a team of committed, dedicated individuals united by the desire to start helping the existing orphanages in Harare. This began by frequently visiting and donating whenever possible using the best way they could, while paving way for the establishment of APOF. From these first steps on the road to APOF’s establishment, the founder went on to open the Facebook page Angels Palace Organisation and started to publish some of the events and activities done by her APOF team.
Many children have been orphaned through death of both parents mainly due to HIV/AIDS, abandonment and/or neglect by family members. Sadly, even among the parents still living, the majority can no longer provide for basic needs such as food, clothing and an environment conducive to good health for their children. Furthermore, low income coupled with unemployment has exacerbated the problem. This has led to some engaging into unwholesome activities such as child prostitution leading to the spread of disease in addition to high teenage pregnancy rates, juvenile delinquency, waywardness, all of which are now amounting to serious health and social problems in the Zimbabwean society. Unfortunately, government alone cannot adequately address the humanitarian and social needs of these disadvantaged children.
Additionally, despite the numerous children’s homes operating in the country there is still an acute shortage of these facilities to care for the orphaned, abandoned and neglected children – especially in Chegutu District as no children’s home ever existed in the area. The founder, board members, ordinary members and advisers of APOF all believe that the establishment of APOF is certain and are sure its formation will help reduce poverty and improve economic activity significantly in the affected communities and the nation as a whole, in the future, by continuous support of abandoned, neglected and less fortunate children. Through education, care, and love these children can realize their full potential and utilize their gifts and talents for personal development, as well as the collective advancement of Zimbabwe.
