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'Never again shall we allow such Violence' - Mazowe Community
16 Jun 2016 at 02:40hrs | Views
Mazowe Ward 9 community has vowed never to allow violence occur in the area.
Heal Zimbabwe Trust stated in its report that the gruesome tales of the 2008 elections related violence remain episodes that no community member in Mazowe ward 9 want to recur.
"The violence resulted in 3 people of the same family in the same village losing their lives, they included the councilor elect for ward 9 Gibson Chironga," said the trust.
"In order to avert possible recurrence of violence, the community working with Heal Zimbabwe took it upon itself and established a peace club in the area whose mandate like all other peace structures working with HZT, is to call members to shun violence and be ambassadors of peace. The community gave the peace club the name "Sungano" which means "binding agreement" in English."
The trust said peace club then went through an intensive training by Heal Zimbabwe on the best possible ways to mitigate conflict by going through rigorous conflict analysis and then managing conflict through actions such as engaging local leadership.
"In the month of May, Sungano peace club carried out a conflict mapping where they noted that in order to publicize ,amplify and create their message of peace, they were supposed to initiate a collaborative neutral platform where they would use the platform to spread message of peace and on the importance of tolerance and peaceful co-existence within the community," said the trust.
"It is against such a background that the peace club mobilized the community on 13 June 2016, to build a makeshift bridge in the ward that links Majanga community and Rosa Hospital. The activity was attended by two members from the Village Development committee (VIDCO) and Village heads Chidhawu and Majanga."
Heal Zimbabwe Trust stated in its report that the gruesome tales of the 2008 elections related violence remain episodes that no community member in Mazowe ward 9 want to recur.
"The violence resulted in 3 people of the same family in the same village losing their lives, they included the councilor elect for ward 9 Gibson Chironga," said the trust.
The trust said peace club then went through an intensive training by Heal Zimbabwe on the best possible ways to mitigate conflict by going through rigorous conflict analysis and then managing conflict through actions such as engaging local leadership.
"In the month of May, Sungano peace club carried out a conflict mapping where they noted that in order to publicize ,amplify and create their message of peace, they were supposed to initiate a collaborative neutral platform where they would use the platform to spread message of peace and on the importance of tolerance and peaceful co-existence within the community," said the trust.
"It is against such a background that the peace club mobilized the community on 13 June 2016, to build a makeshift bridge in the ward that links Majanga community and Rosa Hospital. The activity was attended by two members from the Village Development committee (VIDCO) and Village heads Chidhawu and Majanga."
Source - Byo24News
