PLEASE SHARE🙏 | Help Natasha Fight Cancer and and Achieve Her Dream of Becoming a Medical Doctor.
Natasha Chikosha is a 24-year-old final-year medical student at the University of Zimbabwe who is currently fighting a serious form of cancer called ALK-negative Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma.
Natasha has spent years working tirelessly toward her dream of becoming a doctor so she could dedicate her life to caring for others. Instead of preparing for graduation and beginning her medical career, she is now facing the fight of her life.
Her doctors have confirmed that her treatment can be curative, giving our family hope. However, one of the most important medications in her chemotherapy treatment, Brentuximab Vedotin, is extremely expensive and currently beyond what we can afford.
As a family, we are doing everything we can to support Natasha through chemotherapy, hospital visits, medication costs, transport and ongoing care. Unfortunately, cancer treatment in Zimbabwe is financially overwhelming, and we are now reaching out for help.
Natasha is kind, hardworking, resilient and deeply loved by everyone around her. Even during this difficult journey, she continues to smile and hold onto hope.
We are asking anyone who is able to support, whether through a donation, a prayer or simply sharing this fundraiser, to please help us give Natasha the chance to continue her treatment and fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor. Every contribution, no matter how small, truly makes a difference.
Thank you for standing with Natasha and our family during this incredibly difficult time.
Go Fund Me Link Available below. Alternatively if you are in Zimbabwe you can contribute using these details:
Account Name : M & D Chikosha. Bank : Agribank Nelson Mandela. Acc Number: 100004483558. Ecocash: 0772737943 Mazivisa Chikosha
And to all those who say that I am not Zimbabwean because of the colour of my skin, may you find healing for the hate in your hearts. I don't hate you back.
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So, at the beginning of this year, Tadiwa got in touch with me and sent his A-Level certificates. He had 20 points, which is just about the maximum one can get at A-Level. The crazy smart ones get 20 points, the standard smart ones get 15. So he is super smart, unbelievably smart. He wanted to study medicine, but he had no money at all, his parents are poor.
So I did what I always do when these smart kids reach out to me. I got in touch with a couple of wealthy friends in Zimbabwe who know other wealthy friends.
Within that circle, one of the super wealthy guys said he was willing to pay for Tadiwa’s schooling, but they did not want to be in direct contact with him. And they did not want to pay every semester or every year, they wanted to do it once, properly, and be done.
So they paid almost US$20,000 upfront for Tadiwa’s six-year medical tuition at the University of Zimbabwe, plus all his accommodation for the full duration of the programme. One payment, six years, a whole future secured. Someone who has never met him, moved only by the idea that a brilliant poor child deserves a fair chance.
This evening Tadiwa sent me a message, and it filled my heart. It made me so deeply happy to know that through the influence of my social media platforms, through the work we do together here, a life was transformed in such a profound way.
I am genuinely overjoyed for Tadiwa, he is a modest guy. As you can tell from the message below, he says he “sailed through,” but from the results he has sent me so far, he is actually top of his class in all the results released so far. I am so proud of him, deeply proud, because brilliance wrapped in humility is rare, and he carries both with such grace.
And Tadiwa, my boy, I am so proud of you. I am so happy for you. I have no words, only gratitude and hope.
And now, as I prepare to fly out to the Middle East on Saturday, I carry him with me in my thoughts. I have been invited there, and one of the key things I want to put on the table is the creation of scholarship funds for young Zimbabweans who want to study chemical engineering.
The Middle East is built on oil, their giants were created by engineers, so I am hoping I can motivate my friends there to invest in engineering scholarships for our smart but poor kids in Zimbabwe and South Africa where I live.
This is chicken feed for them. To send a child to study medicine or engineering in Zimbabwe does not cost much. Medicine is US$20,000 for the entire six years, tuition and boarding included at the University of Zimbabwe
And I appeal to wealthy Zimbabweans too, please consider doing this. We can change lives. We can lift families out of generational poverty. We can build tomorrow’s economic engines for our country. Goodnight.