Romana Muusha* is a 40 year old mother. And for longer than any parent should have to endure, she has been fighting alongside her child through cancer; the treatments, the steroids, the hormonal storms, the sleepless nights, and the relentless travel between Bulawayo and Harare that slowly ground her down.
Though her child’s bone marrow is now in remission, the road to get there left its marks. For months, Romana was couch-surfing between friends and family in Harare, grateful, but never truly resting, never truly home. Carrying one of the heaviest weights a parent can carry, without a room to put it down.
Then she heard about Rainbow Children’s Village. And something shifted.
“Romana Muusha had been shuttling between Bulawayo and Harare for months, fighting for her child’s life with no place to truly rest. Then one room changed everything.”
This past Thursday, KidzCan officially celebrated the opening of Phase Three of the Rainbow Children’s Village, a new block of living quarters continuing a vision that broke ground in December 2021. What began as a single phase has grown steadily, with Phase Two breaking ground in July 2023 and Phase Three in July 2025. Each block a new wing of mercy for families who have nowhere else to turn.
For ZimWorX, the milestone was personal. Through The51, we contributed $25,000 toward the construction of one of the rooms in the newly completed block. That room now bears The51 mural on its wall. It is not a plaque nor a press release, but a place where a mother like Romana can finally sleep with her child.
The51 exists on a conviction, that business success is not an end in itself. That the measure of a company is not only what it builds commercially, but what it gives back, deliberately, consistently, and in places where the need is greatest. Rainbow Children’s Village is exactly that kind of place.
Back in that room, a mother will finally rest. Her child will sleep between treatments without the exhaustion of another journey. The endless back-and-forth, the cost, the risk, the delays, will slow to a stop. Steady walls. A steady breath. And in this village built for families in crisis, the weight, just for a moment, will be a little lighter.
One room. One family. One life at a time.
