Andrew
Midlands Bureau
YOUTH in Mberengwa East are set to benefit from various empowerment initiatives meant to help them participate in the country’s socio-economic development.
The initiatives are being spearheaded by businessman and ZANU PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) secretary for health for Mberengwa East, Dr Cummins Hove.
To kick-start the process, he last week hosted a youth sports tournament that attracted participants from across the district.
The event, dubbed 2023 Youth Champions of Champions Sports Tournament, ran under the theme “Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo (a country is developed by its citizens).”
Officiating at the event, Dr Hove said the crime rate among youth was getting out of hand as a result of being unproductive.
“Most of the youth lack activity and some of them are leaving the country, so I realised that one way of bringing them together was for me to call for a sporting gala for all of them to participate.”
Meanwhile, Dr Hove recently partnered Mberengwa Rural District Council (MRDC) to rehabilitate the 32km Zvomukonde-Ngungumbane Road.
The road links Mberengwa South and East constituencies to the local Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot.
The damage to the road had adversely affected delivery of farming inputs, medicines and food aid.
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