ZA mental hospital hails outgoing model of the year
The country’s largest psychiatric center, Zomba Mental Hospital administration has hailed outgoing Malawi News Model of the Year Faith Chibale for her kindness towards the needy.
Last week, Chibale who won the Malawi News Model of the Year crown in 2009 and will be handing it over this Friday, organized a fundraising show that took place at the French Cultural Centre in Blantyre to raise funds for purchasing basic human needs for the inmates.
Zomba Mental Hospital Principle Administrator, John Kachoka saluted Chibale in an interview with Nyasa Times when the 20-year-old model donated assorted items for patients at the centre.
Said Kachoka: “We really appreciate her donation and this is very strange considering her age is something that we really have to take it very seriously and I hope the youth will emulate the example that she has shown.”
According to the Principle Administrator, there are 225 patients at Zomba Mental Hospital and there are a lot of challenges facing the facility that was built in 1950 and started operations in 1953 which is solely funded by Malawi government.
“Patients lack a lot of necessities such as food, which we provide but it is not enough, they need extra food so we would like to ask people out there to emulate her [Chibale’s] example,” said Kachoka.
Many Malawians brand Chibale as ‘the most outstanding model’ in the history of the Malawi News Model of the Year competition whose contestants are selected from the list of girls that appear as Model of the Week in the Saturday newpaper.
In separate interviews, two of the twelve finalists in this year’s Malawi News Model of the Year also saluted the outgoing Blantyre based model whose passion for the underprivileged has won her the ‘Queen of Charity’ title.
“Faith has that courage in her and that’s an inspiration that as aspiring models we can get from her. She knows how to work with everyone and with what she has done; I do agree she is the most outstanding model of the year,” said 21-year-old Rachael Bwanali.
Tina Kendricks, aged 20 and told Nyasa Times she has passion particularly for orphans, said Chibale has opened another chapter for Malawian models that for so long have made unfulfilled promises to the nation.
“What she’s achieved during her office is a great inspiration to us. It makes us [aspirants] have the wish to do more than what she has done,” said Kendricks who pointed out she will always remember Chibale “for working with the mentally ill who are always sidelined as compared to other needy people in society”.
The two models admitted Chibale leaves a mountain to climb ahead of winner of this Friday’s event as she will be working towards breaking the record set by her predecessor as ‘the most outstanding Malawi News Model of the Year’.
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