Kansas-based writer and humanitarian, Bob Scott, who is also the organisation’s director, told The Zimbabwean that the container would be sent to Bulawayo, with its 16 000 books and more than 500 boxes of medical supplies to benefit a number of institutions in Matabeleland.

“I am donating the supplies to Hope for Mtshabezi, which is headed up by some extraordinary women, Lindani Sibanda and Doreen Khumlo,” said Scott.

“I feel it is important to support Zimbabwean organisations already working in the country. I look for people who have been personally sacrificing their time and resources trying to make a difference. The HfM team is most all health professionals leaving here in the US, but who, out of their own pockets, return home to help. I want to strengthen their hands by giving them something that can make a huge difference.”

“We are also shipping over a few pallets of women's fem-care supplies that will be donated to organizations like the Wellspring Women's Network,” added Scott.

“We have not determined which schools exactly will get books but there will be quite a few. My friends in the Matopos work with 11 schools and they will be getting some of the books, while I have asked that the village of Mbezingwe get both books and medical supplies, as many of the members of The Community of Reconciliation came from there.”

Scott is the write of the top-selling book “Saving Zimbabwe; Life, Death & Hope in Africa”, which has received rave reviews worldwide.