Bulawayo's Cowdray Park residents in rape and crime mitigation workshop

Two Civil Organisations, Msasa Project and ZimRights, facilitated the workshop. The C.A.T, operating with instruction from the Ward’s Councillor, Cllr Collet Ndlovu coordinated the sessions.

Cowdray Park is one of the few residential areas in Bulawayo that are not fully electrified. As a direct consequence, the residents have to fetch firewood from the neighbouring farming community.

Tree cutting is an illegal activity and law enforcers are always up in arms with the constituents.

In their quest to fetch firewood, people are violated in different ways.

Women are allegedly sexually harassed and men claim they are at times robbed of valuables and assaulted by the farmers’ security personnel.

A fact-finding mission that was set up at the preliminary stages of the workshops established most of this information.

This initiative by the Ward C.A.T marks a milestone towards the realisation of ZDDT’s principle of local ownership of communities by its members.

This intervention by the Trust empowers residents from grassroots level and engenders Servant Leadership qualities in Government (National and Local) representatives.