Gre-cycling is a project aimed at recycling waste to generate income. The first step of this pilot project is to recycle plastics in to diesel and other by products. Once the success of this project is achieved focus will be on bio-material/sewage, paper and cans. The project will be located in Senga one of the poorest high-density suburbs in Gweru, Zimbabwe. It aims to curb the environmental degradation in the area which is highly polluted because of over population that occurs during the Midlands State University semester. The result of the environmental degradation has resulted in unsavory living conditions and disease outbreaks.

The idea behind this project is to turn waste into energy, creating jobs for the Gweru community in Zimbabwe and also maintaining a healthy and clean environment in the Senga surburb of Gweru where most MSU students who failed to get residence at the college live.

Log on to the Dell challenge website and vote for this brilliant idea from Zimbabwe and help turn some dreams into reality.

I watch local news on the telly all day every day, and there is a worrying trend that misfits the GNU that makes a mockery of the role being played by other coalition colleagues. We have known for a very long time from Zanu PF that deputy ministers are not allowed on the Round Table when cabinet meets. Thus some people asked why we get an acting minister, a chap who already superintends another portfolio when there already exists a deputy minister who would by some people’s interpretation logically be expected to watch the gate when Mudenge for example is attacked by a bull. Yet this is given its improper perspective when you watch the news on national television.

From the ministries “led” by the MDC-T you get their deputies waxing lyrical about policy issues when in another place and time it is the minister as the top dog who would be grilled by the journos. But then we get these Zanu PF deputy ministers appearing on TV with alarming frequency you wonder if there is some kind of conspiracy to silence the other coalition voices and present very biased picture that it is these Zanu PF apparatchiks who are steering the troubled nation to placid waters. Thus it is that you get Udenge the deputy minister of economic planning gracing the television screen, Dokora the deputy of education oozing policy machismo, Bimha the deputy of industry and commerce going on and on about what I would rather hear from his boss. Why then not have other deputies like Gift Chimanikire and others if there is nothing wrong with the trend adopted by the news hacks? Good question that! Perhaps the Zanu PF officials are considered more telegenic, but then that’s highly debatable!

But then it is obviously about politics as usual – why show viewers the faces of ministers from parties that want to return the country to white-rule where blacks will once again be banned from walking on CBD sidewalks? Makes sense doesn’t it? We saw it even when there was this major launch of the schools IT project where the only story that emerged from IT Minister Chamisa was him apparently extolling the old president for initiating the schools computerisation programme. But I do feel like that guy who in a very dark night is busy winking at a girl he saw before the lights went out!

Thanks for getting involved in Kubatana’s fix this.please campaign. Your postcards are flying into our post box and we’re really proud by how proactive and engaged Zimbabweans are in wanting to make where they live better.

Here are some responses:

I have put my stickers at:
1) A non working tower light at Kaguvi because people are being robbed in that area
2) The broken sewage pipe at Umvovo because people can easily be attacked by diseases e.g. cholera
3) A stop sign which was crushed by a motor vehicle some time ago in town. I had to put the sticker because there was an accident which took place at  that area

I put the stickers on:
1) A borehole (not functioning) causing shortage of water in Chegutu
2) Manhole Inspection Chamber because of odour from sewage/refuse and sewage burst pipes in Chegutu

Masticker angu ndaka sticker parobot repanjani ravanenguva risinga shandi. Panova pakamboita tsaona yebhazi ne goods train pakafa vanhu makore mashoma apfuura. Pakaita tsaona yelorry yemumwe mugari wemuchegutu. (I placed my stickers on a non-functioning robot at a railway crossing. In the past there was an accident involving a goods train and a bus which killed people. Also a lorry owned by a Chegutu local had an accident at the same spot.)

I have placed stickers on:
1) A tower light between Majange shops and Urombo Primary School. The tower light stopped working long back thereby putting people’s live at risk during the night
2) A railway crossing warning sign a stones throw distance from Chevron Hotel. This is a crossing on the road to Beitbridge
3) Sewer pipes across Shakashe River between Rujeko and Eastvale. Raw sewage form these burst pipes is contaminating water that feeds a dam which is the main water source for Masvingo residents.

I placed my sticker on the robots near Canaan Terminus. It’s been a long time since these robots stopped working. We need them to work.

In Masvingo a lot of broken pipes, no street lights and no traffic lights.

“The things you own end up owning you.”
- Tyler Durden

Baseline Survey/Study Consultancy: Zimbabwe Red Cross Society
Deadline: 6 April 2012

Project: FED/2010/244-238:CHIVI Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Project (CHIWASH)

The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) has received funding from the European Commission (EC) and British and Finnish Red Cross Societies for the implementation of a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project in Chivi District, Masvingo Province. The funding from the EC comes from the 10th EDF under the ACP-EU Water Facility 3rd Call For Proposals. The project is funded for four years and aims to improve access to safe water and sanitation and promote good hygiene behavior, which will contribute to improved health and quality of life for 100,000 people. Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS), a leading Humanitarian organization in Zimbabwe, is the national/local implementing partner to the Federation in this project.

The Federation is seeking the services of a competent and qualified consultant to undertake a baseline survey/study in Chivi District targeting wards 16-32.

Objectives of the Baseline Study
The baseline results and findings will be a key tool that will influence the planning and targeting of community members with the planned interventions. The baseline study should therefore help in defining the current situation primarily related to access and use including Knowledge, Practices And Attitudes (KAP) linked to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. Further, the results obtained should facilitate monitoring and evaluation of project objectives and key results.

Profile of consultant

The consultant should provide the following experiences and skills:
- An expert with university education and extensive relevant professional experience of at least five years in the water and sanitation sector in Zimbabwe
- Experience in WatSan evaluations/surveys and the required quantitative and qualitative survey methodologies
- Understanding of current trends and challenges in Water and Sanitation at regional/national/district levels in Zimbabwe
- Ability to draft concise reports and communicate the survey results clearly
- Should have carried out a least two baseline surveys/and or evaluations of similar projects in the last 3-5years

The baseline study is scheduled for the second week of April 2012

Detailed Terms of Reference with instructions to prospective consultants can be requested by email from: cecil.maposa [at] ifrc [dot] org

The Federation will not take responsibility for non-delivery of the Terms of Reference sent by email.

Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse and kept it there for nearly a half-century, died on Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82.

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