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

Two senior citizens from Ward 24 in Bulawayo’s Nkulumane Township benefited from Zimbabwe Development Trust (ZDDT)’s Business Social Credit Scheme (BSCS) which saw them walking away with US$50 each.

Read more: Senior Citizens benefit from ZDDT’s BSCS

On May 13, Ward 1 residents elected a Ward Retention Fund Committee to spearhead developmental projects for the Central Business District of Bulawayo which forms most of the area constituency.

Read more: Ward Elects Retention Fund Committee

Amazing Stars Arts Academy (ASAA), a local drama group which has a long standing relationship with the Zimbabwe Development Democracy Trust (ZDDT), has adopted a girl child, for whom the ensemble is paying school fees.

Read more: Drama Group Adopts a Child

Having been a councillor for nearly four years now, Silas Chigora, Ward 4, says he contested the 2013 elections because he felt it was high time he added his voice to the development of Bulawayo as a city.

Read more: I Wanted to Add My Voice to Development – Chigora