Community Action Teams receive valuable training
Mr. Ncube said this soon after a training exercise entitled, Life Skills and Social Values Workshop for Community Action Teams, (CATs) held recently at the Njube Lutheran Youth Centre, Ward Ten.
There was a hundred per cent turn out at the occasion, where all the City’s 29 Wards were each represented by one member, while gender balance at an estimated one female for every three males was reasonably good.
Speaking about various needs concerning local communities that the training highlighted, Mr. Ncube said; “Participants expressed concern at the lack of cohesion shown by public officials in the execution of their duties and the absence of knowledge among civic leaders with regard to social values.
In my opinion, this same lack subsequently becomes evident in members of the public in the various Wards.” He added that according to participants, a suitable solution for solving this concern would be the holding of similar workshops on a more wide spread basis.
Mr. Ncube said that he was in consensus with this opinion.
“The training should be considered as just the baseline for future exercises of similar nature, which would have reaching out to a much broader audience as their intention.” He added that as a means of effectively measuring the results of the training, it was necessary to occasionally hold review meetings.
The workshop was held under the auspices of ZDDT’s SEBENZELA/ Work for … Programme, which receives financial support from ECEZ.