HOME VISIT REPORT
Date
27 March 2025
Time
9am-3pm
Home Address
ACCOUNT___________________________________________________
On the 27th of March 2025 the Shalom Team of social workers travelled to Kadoma to trace the
parents of Sharon Makamanure in an effort to gather the present circumstances of the Kamanure
children’s relatives for potencial reunification and family support options.
Upon arrival in Kadoma, the Shalom team of social workers was warmly welcomed by the Nyandoro
family which comprises of Sharon’s father and step mother. The couple stays in a one large roomed
house with their baby daughter and 16 year old son Brighton Nyandoro. Reciprocal conversations
between the involved parties focused on issues to do with Sharon’s current well-being and detrimental
living conditions and the possible interventions that can be done to ensure Sharon and her children’s
wellness. Besides showing fatherly love with his physical affection and body language, Mr. Nyandoro
expressed his strong desire to take care of Sharon and to help her get her life back on track by not only
monitoring and preventing herself destructive behaviors, but by also facilitating the necessary
channeling resources she needs to pursue any specific career of her choice. However, he also
emphasized that the paternal side (The Kamanure family) of her children should put efforts in
ensuring that her children have a safe haven to stay, as it is their duty.
Mr. Nyandoro further narrated how he divorced Sharon’s mother and how Sharon preferred her to
him due to her permissive parenting styles, compared to his authotarianism, which led to Sharon
absconding from his homestead. He also provided the contact details (enlisted below) that Social
Welfare officers related to the case can use to contact him. Contact details of the Sharon’s mother
were also provided and she is alleged to be currently staying in either Kwekwe or Chegutu. Other
positive gestures of hospitality shown by the Nyandoro family included providing food and drinks for
the Social Work Team and a change of clothes for Sharon.
On the other hand, Sharon, who exhibited signs of drug induced behavior, expressed a great degree of
unwillingness to reunite with her father and asserted that she would only come to stay at the Nyandoro
homestead under the condition that she would come with her children, to which her father showed no
signs of affirmation. She also expressed her willingness to continue with her street life of liberal
unmonitored behaviors of snuggery, robbery reciprocities and using nomadic squatter camps as places
of residence.
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS________________________________
The Nyandoro house, which is a one roomed house in a remote neighborhood in Kadoma Rio Tinto,
bears 4 individuals (The Nyandoro parents and two young children) making it relatively inappropriate
to accommodate two more people, that is, Sharon’s two children. In addition to these architectural
disparities , Mr. Nyandoro’s emphasis on the mandate of the Kamanure family to provide a place to
stay for the Kamanure children narrows the possibility of the Kamanure children residing at the
Nyandoro homestead as a long term place of safety. However, Sharon’s stated preference to her
mother’s bosom suggests that she could be a prospective foster parent for Sharon’s children. The
disturbing living conditions, mental state and behavior of Sharon highlight the degree of her current
incapability to take care of her children.
Recommendations_________________________________
In the light of the above, it is recommended that the Nyandoro family’s place of residence in
Kadoma should not be currently considered as a potencial long term place of safety for the
children
Follow ups should be done on the Nyandoro and Kamanure family to facilitate and secure
birth certificates for the Kamanure children.
Sharon’s mother should also be contacted to assess her living conditions and attitude towards
the current state of her daughter’s family affairs, which might lead to possible reunification
efforts or other forms of family support such as home visits to the Home.
Based on Sharon’s current self-destructive mental state and behavior, efforts should be made
by Shalom Children’s Home to network her to rehabilitation centers in Harare. This is of
paramount importance as this action can not only improve Sharon’s life, but create possible
future healthy reconnections between the Kamanure Children and their mother.
Contact Details_____________________
Mr. Nyandoro
Brighton Nyandoro
(+263) 719198548
(+263) 789367303
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Mr. Soko (Social Worker)
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