adminLovemore Zigara Midlands Correspondent
THE Shurugwi-Tongogara Community Share Ownership Trust has set aside $600,000 for new projects that are expected to be undertaken later this year in Shurugwi District.
Twenty four wards in the district received $25,000 each from the community share ownership funds.
Ward 5 has set aside its share for the refurbishment of Banga Clinic.
A representative of the Banga chieftainship, Alford Mfiri said part of the money would be used to construct shelter for expecting mothers since the clinic was the only one in the district without such a facility.
Chief Banga is the current chairman of the community ownership trust and the chairmanship rotates among three chiefs, himself and Chief Nhema as well as Chief Ndanga.
“We’re in the process of mobilising the community to provide bricks so that we can construct a mothers’ waiting shelter. We’ve already set aside a room at a nearby complex near the clinic which is housing expecting mothers as a stop gap measure,” said Mfiri.
“We’ve received $25,000 from the community share ownership trust and as a ward we’ve decided to use that money for the upgrading of the clinic. Of all the clinics that are found in the district, it’s only this clinic that doesn’t have all the facilities.”
Mfiri said over 2,000 people rely on the clinic.
The government came up with community ownership trusts as a way of ensuring that locals benefit from riches in their ancestral lands. The scheme has seen the upgrading of roads, building and rehabilitation of bridges, schools among others across the country.
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