akosi launches children's charity

Makosi launches children's charity

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By Showbiz Reporter

BIG Brother star Makosi Musambasi has launched a charity aimed at helping the African Girl Child.

Makosi, 26, has teamed up with Kenyan national, Pauline Long, the organiser of the Miss East Africa UK beauty pageant on the charity which was launched last Friday.

The Big5 Africa charity was launched in London.

Makosi told New Zimbabwe.com that the charity will work with various orphanages and charities in Africa.

She said: "I feel very blessed with the overnight fame and what better way to show appreciation than give help to the people who need it most!

"As an ambassador for the African child with a spirit of humanity, I have decided to dedicate most of my time to this cause."

And Long added: "The Big5 Africa might be an organisation working with charities in Africa but its effects would be and are global, since the world today is a global village. No one continent is immune to what is happening to the next."

Makosi said the organisation will raise funds to offer education and sponsorship to the most vulnerable and displaced children in Africa.

She said: "This charity will put a lot of emphasis on education on HIV/Aids...giving back the responsibility to the African people.

"A lot of money has been poured into Africa but this has not helped. We should be getting lecturers going out there to work with the people and bring them to the realisation that the world is now a global society, if you don't do it for yourselves, please do it for the rest of the world."

Makosi said their aim was to get African First Ladies to be patrons and ambassadors for the charity in their given countries.

Makosi told New Zimbabwe.com last December that her resolution for the New Year was "charity, charity and more charity", adding that "without Mother Theresa, we need Mother Makosi".

She will be running in the London Marathon in April to raise money for children with special needs as part of her charity work (see website or donate).

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