Cleaning up Zimbabwe's second City
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Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – During a recent visit to Ward Twelve, the Trust’s Bulawayo PDO, Bruce Mtengwa and Field Correspondent, Lewis Jones from Team ZDDT had a superb insight into the residents’ enthusiasm for maintaining a clean environment.
The neighbourhood visited, is located in Njube, a deprived Township of the City. During the past decade, this area, like others of its kind west of Bulawayo’s hub, were particularly affected by deteriorating service delivery, due to a declining national economy. A significantly disconcerting characteristic of such situations is usually the proliferation of littering they tend to generate.
It was in a situation such as this that the Team discovered a group of residents, under instructions from the local Councillor and led by her C.A.T, clearing piles of refuse that had been dumped in a drainage channel adjacent to the Township’s Catholic Church. Culprits responsible for the dumping are local people, tired of waiting weeks on end for Council to remove refuse.
Tidying the area proved a
particularly difficult task, but utilising ZDDT issued tools and protective gear, the voluntary work-force accomplished it in a commendable manner.
Ward 12 is overseen by Cllr. Thembile Khoza and the clean-up exercise under review fell under the Trust’s SEBENZELA/ Work for … Initiative which receives funding from development partner, ECEZ.