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Tendai Gukutikwa
Post Reporter
ZANU PF Youth League has adopted Nharira Secondary School’s reforestation project in Marange.
Speaking during the belated National Tree Planting Day commemorations that were held at Nharira Secondary School in Marange on Tuesday, deputy national political commissar in the Youth League, Cde Taurai Kandishaya pledged the league’s continuous support towards the cause.
He said they will support the project by creating a nursery for trees.
The trees will be used in the reforestation project across the Marange area.
“We are asking the traditional leadership to avail a piece of land in this area where we will run a fenced nursery for trees that will be used for the reforestation project in the Marange area. We want to develop a culture of tree planting among school going children,” said Cde Kandishaya.
He said the nursery will house fruit trees that will help sustain livelihoods of the villagers, while improving the diet of school going children.
Cde Kandishaya further stated that the Youth League will donate 100 fruit trees to the school’s orchard as it is their hope that every school in Marange should have an orchard.
Cde Kandishaya who was accompanied by members of the Zimbabwe Miners For Economic Development and Romans 13 Movement, urged them to continue supporting the party in implementing development projects across the country.
ZANU PF Manicaland provincial chairman, Cde Tawanda Mukodza applauded Acting Chief Marange for spearheading the project, saying it is in accordance with President Mnangagwa’s nyika inovakwa nevene vayo mantra.
“We should continue emulating the good work that our President is doing for us. One of the so many projects rolled out in Manicaland include the tarring of the road in this area.
“He has spearheaded a lot of developments in the country and I advise you to vote wisely during the 2023 harmonised elections. Marange is well-known for voting wisely and we are asking you as the electorate to repeat what you have been doing all along,” he said.
Cde Mukodza urged the traditional leadership in the area to help mobilise voters to vote for President Mnangagwa in Mutare West and Mutare North constituencies respectively.
Acting Chief Marange’s son, Mr Nyasha Marange thanked the Youth League for its kind gesture, and said the Marange family, together with the local leadership who include headmen and village heads are spearheading tree planting initiatives across their area in support of President Mnangagwa’s thrust to tree planting.
“We are here to launch the programme. We will be going around Marange area and planting more trees and we will make sure that we have planted more than enough trees in the area.
“The area is known for being dry and hot, but we need to change that by planting trees everywhere. Trees are life. We breathe oxygen which is produced from trees and without that, we will perish. Even our livestock will have enough food when we have trees.
“What we are doing as we plant our trees is to teach villagers including school going children not to cut trees willy-nilly. They need to know that trees are important and that we depend on them. We saw it important not to leave no one and no place behind.
“We also have many other development programmes that we are spearheading in the area so that our people are not left behind in terms of development and we would like to thank President Mnangagwa for blessing our projects,” said Mr Marange
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