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Collaboration Seen as Key to Community Development

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Stakeholders in Plumtree and Gwanda districts, including government officials, traditional leaders, civil society organisations and youth groups, have agreed that collaborative problem-solving is key to tackling the daily challenges facing their communities. civil society organisations, community-based organisations and young people in Gwanda and Plumtree say working together can help communities respond to some of the […]

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Residents Demand Answers Over Water Crisis

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By Bongiwe Dube Gwanda residents and youth have demanded immediate accountability from municipal authorities over persistent water shortages, using knowledge and confidence gained through CYDT civic engagement initiatives to challenge service delivery failures. Following nearly a week of dry taps across the town, residents moved beyond expressing frustration to directly engaging council officials, questioning technical

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Rise and Shine youths take up poultry farming with CYDT support

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By Bongiwe Dube FIVE youths from Marula in Plumtree have ventured into poultry farming after receiving start-up capital from CYDT in June 2026. The group, known as Rise and Shine, approached CYDT earlier this year seeking financial support to start a poultry project to create a source of income and build sustainable livelihoods. CYDT carefully

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Assisting disadvantaged groups to get their primary documents

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While the Constitution of Zimbabwe stipulates that everyone has the right to citizenship documents, many people especially young people lack birth certificates and IDs in rural areas. Major challenges include broken families, parent’s death and lack of urgency to get IDs mainly due to lack of information on the importance of getting IDs among rural

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Fighting Misinformation on Social Media: Strengthening SRHR Awareness Among Young Women

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CYDT implemented a digital storytelling and online engagement campaign from February to July 2025 across Beitbridge, Gwanda and Umzingwane targeting young women and youth in a busy border province where misinformation about health and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) was increasingly circulating on social media platforms. Many young women were exposed to misleading

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 Young Women Empowerment: Girl Power Clubs Initiative

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A group of adolescent and young women in Gwanda Rural have been supported to remain in education and make informed life choices through a community-based empowerment initiative led by CYDT. The initiative, implemented from January to June 2024, established “Young Women Girl Power Clubs” across rural communities to address challenges related to early marriage pressures,

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