Nkayi Community Development Project
Eightytwenty Vision is working for the purpose of assisting the people of Nkayi and uplifting their standard of living through a focus on economic development and equipping people with skills for self-sustenance.
Nkayi is situated in Matabeleland North Province. At the moment the programme focuses mainly on two wards: the Philip and Nkalakatha wards. The population of Nkayi is 111,118 as at the 2002 census with an average growth rate of 3.5% per year. Generally the people are heavily dependant on subsistence farming and cattle rearing to sustain their livelihoods. Nkayi, like much of rural Zimbabwe, has experienced severe food shortages, resulting in malnutrition, poor health, and like elsewhere in Zimbabwe is also vulnerable to HIV and Aids.
There are 4 thematic areas Eightytwenty Vision is involved in:
- Purchase maize from community members rather than external entities for the continued nutritional support of people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children
- Provide all the required skills and tools to see the community become fully self sufficient and non reliant upon emergency nutritional support
- Provide a secure and safe water source for drinking and cooking needs and support of crop growth for the community
- Provision of fees for students unable to attend school through the purchase of community maize and school sponsor program
- Rehabilitate the classrooms of 8 class room blocks, repair and provide school furniture and establish school management training for school committees
- The establishment of an annual netball and soccer tournament for the schools in the area
- Training workshops on women’s rights to education, rights to health, rights to food, rights to inheritance, basic business and entrepreneurship skills for women
- Formation of Child Protection Committees responsible for the monitoring of children’s rights
- Provide an extended maternity service to provide pre-natal and post natal care
- Strengthen HIV/Aids prevention efforts, combat discrimination, provide enhanced care and nutritional support for those people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children
- Strengthen cholera prevention efforts and provide cholera kits for adequate sanitation of collected water supply
- Provide the necessary medical equipment to enable more appropriate care and support of patients
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