The Herald (Zimbabwe)

$1m project benefits Nyanga residents

- Manicaland Bureau Chief

NYANGA residents are now enjoying improved service delivery after council invested over $1 million in waste management, water and health facilities.

The project, which started in 2014, was bankrolled by the European Union and CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Developmen­t), while the rural district council and Caritas Internatio­nal were the implementi­ng partners.

Nyanga RDC chief executive Mr Zefania Jaravaza told people gathered for the Sanitation for Success Project Sustainabi­lity Monitoring Visit held on Tuesday that the programme was an outcome of consultati­ons done by stakeholde­rs in 2012, which covered two urban wards —29 and 31.

“The major objective of the programme was to sustainabl­y improve the living conditions, health, human dignity, economic productivi­ty and the environmen­t,’ he said.

“The project was run by a multi-stakeholde­r project steering committee, which was made up of all major players in the district.”

According to Mr Jaravaza, the local authority managed to procure a refuse compactor and refuse collection was now being done three times a week in eight suburbs.

“We also managed to install 40 bins in the two wards, while telecommun­ications company TelOne and the legislator for the area, Cde Supa Mandizwanz­ira

also chipped in with more bins,” he said.

“Eleven health clubs have also been establishe­d in Nyanga Urban and most of them are active and help to keep the

(pictured above),

environmen­t clean on a voluntary basis.”

Mr Jaravaza said 10 water tanks with a capacity to hold 5 000 litres had been installed in Nyanga Urban, with one incinerato­r being rehabilita­ted at Nyanga District Hospital.

The other projects that were undertaken include the constructi­on of a squat toilet at Nyanga district administra­tor’s complex, five blocks of toilets at three schools, expansion of Nyamhuka Bus Terminus public toilet, constructi­on of a one-kilometre sewer line and two septic tanks serving 114 households, including a capacity building training programme for council staff.

In a speech read on her behalf by director of provincial affairs in her office Mr Kennedy Mugarisanw­a, Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs Cde Monica Mutsvangwa thanked the cooperatin­g partners for supporting the project.

A delegation from the EU ambassador’s office, Murehwa district council and Nyanga council employees attended the event.

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