100 Bulawayo Families Set to Benefit from Self-Help Project

Above, Ward 21 beneficiaries of ZDDT's workshop posing for a group photo.

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: More than 100 families, from around Sizinda/Tshabalala, are set to benefit from what residents described as one of the most meaningful sources of income and employment in the current economic meltdown.

Sibongaabakhi Community Nutritional Garden, is currently composed of 14 members, with the capacity to accommodate more than 100 families, thereby creating employment.

The power of employment creation, that this project embodies, is a life saver and one of the first to ever be established in the City of Kings since the country’s independence. This project will own its water source making it unique.

According to the Tshabalala community leaders, who were attending last week’s forum, this area of land and the surrounding community, were stagnating until the recently held workshop, on leadership skills and conflict management.This was also revealed by Ward 21 Community Action

Team that attended last week’s forum, held at Tshabalala Council Offices.

About 30 project members, who were drawn from Sizinda, Tshabalala, and Tshabalala Extension, attended.

Also welcomed to the training, were members of the Sizinda North nutritional garden, one of the biggest projects in the area. It has the capacity to accommodate more than 70 families, thereby contributing to poverty alleviation in the community.

Councillor Reuben Matengu Ward 21, who is also a beneficiary of ZDDT’s leadership moulding skills, applauded Sebenzela-Shandira’s response to the training needs of the community.

“We are very grateful, that ZDDT is a moulding house with outstanding management and staff that restore hope in a dejected community, especially during this time of need. We will keep knocking at their doors for more help that we foresee, as the gateway to a democratic lifestyle, and also as a life moulding organisation that must take their outstanding skills to the entire Zimbabwe, for a brighter future,” commented Cllr Matengu.

His sentiments were echoed by Sizinda’s Community Action Team member, who is the Sizinda North Nutritional Garden chairperson, Ms Eunice Mathe, who said, “This workshop has opened our hearts and minds that conflict will never complement any development. Only unity, love and ideas sharing will be our democratic road to success, as presented in the workshop lectures.”