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Honouring Jairos Jiri: Zim’s disability champion and his lasting legacy

Philemon Jambaya

The life and legacy of Zimbabwe’s first black citizen to register a charity organisation aimed at changing the lives of people living with disabilities, the late Jairos Jiri, has been remembered at the Jairos Jiri Association Centre in Kadoma.

Good deeds remain etched in the minds of people for long and such is the case with the late philanthropist Jiri, whose name today is synonymous with disability, since he took a bold decision to help people living with disabilities.

The man, who died in 1982 aged 61, was from a poor background and with little education, but that did not deter him from helping people living with disabilities with many having made it in life through his institutions.

He was not disabled.

November 12 marks 41 years after his death and the nation commemorated the anniversary in Kadoma where tributes were poured in honour of his good deeds.

The late Paul Matavire and