Zimbabwe's second City experiences cleanup revolution
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Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Barely two years ago, ZDDT developed an initiative known as the Shandira / Sebenzela / Work for … Concept.
Essentially a community restoration programme, this initiative has environmental clean-ups, supportive training and product maintenance as its key features. Through these interventions, the Trust, cooperating with local Councillors and their C.A.Ts, nurtured a culture of correct environmental practice including the conducting of practical clean-up exercises, as a means to effect social change.
The need for such action became apparent at a time considered as the darkest era in the Nation’s decade-long plunge into an economic abyss. The subsequent hyper-inflationary dispensation effectively wiped out revenue collection capacities of Local Authorities, resulting in their failure to render acceptable levels of service delivery. Partially because of this, unchecked littering and piles
of illegally dumped refuse became a common sight throughout the City, particularly so in deprived neighbourhoods, where people have fewer resources to dispose of waste.
ZDDT assisted by development partner ECEZ, stepped in by introducing the SEBENZELA/ Work for … Programme, aimed at contributing towards a lasting solution to the situation. This campaign spread into every Ward in the Cities of Bulawayo and Gweru, with occasional appearances in Gwanda and the Victoria Falls resort town. The Trust’s Harare office is responsible for implementation of the programme,
known as SHANDIRA/ Work for … in that City.
The twin concepts of ownership and self-reliance that are central to this Programme, by their very nature, demand that participants should be weaned away from continued dependence upon the Trust for material resources. This process has successfully been brought to fruition, Best Training Courses and Providers on https://learnician.com/ hence the evident indication that Councillors, who participated in the Initiative, now organise and conduct clean-up
exercises on their own initiative. In such situations ZDDT assumes a monitoring role, while providing moral and motivational support.
In view of the evidence demonstrated in the foregoing paragraphs, one may safely feel confident in stating perhaps, that the Trust has had a successful run in conducting its various interventions among local communities in Zimbabwe. Of particular note however, may be the exceptional success it has experienced with the SEBENZELA/SHANDIRA Work for … Programme.
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