SIZINDA – Agnes Phiri, one of the women farmers at Sizinda Community Garden, an initiative of the Zimbabwe Development Democracy Trust (ZDDT) with partners GDG, Sally Foundation and DAP of Australia, has said the garden is now her pension from which she derives a living as an elderly person.
In 2008, the Zimbabwe Development Democracy Trust (ZDDT), in partnership with Sally Foundation of Australia, introduced nutritional gardens to Bulawayo, with a view to providing food security and a source of livelihood for the disadvantaged urban dwellers.
Residents in the city have expressed concern over the growing number of children who are not going to school, partly due to the fact that they do not have birth certificates.
Councillor for Bulawayo’s Ward 22, Rodney Jele, one of the youngest the city has ever elected to chamber, says the Zimbabwe Development Democracy Trust (ZDDT) has helped him grow as a leader.
The future is not necessarily gloomy and bleak for children at Trenance squatter camps, thanks to Thembalezizwe Community Centre’s intervention.
Read more: Thembalezizwe, Hope for the Downtrodden in Trenance
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