Inhlelo zeNkosi conduct poultry training for Mvuthu women

BY BHEKIMPILO WEZA

Ihlelo Zenkosi has conducted a poultry training workshop at Kachecheti village under Chief Mvuthu which seeks to empower women in rural communities in Hwange district. 

A group of women from Chidobe and Kachecheti Wards were trained last week on how they can keep Sussex Chickens, feed them and make a living out of that. 

Speaking before the training, program director Charles Weza said there was a need for women to be empowered so that they may be self dependent while also assisting their families. 

“This is a great opportunity for all you women,” Weza said at the launch.

“It is time to rise up and shine. I had a vision of this saw this and God has helped me and this is why we have come up to here and our hope is to see it transform other generations after us so that our families can be transformed.” 

Calaab Ndazi Ncube from Turning Matabeleland Green, an organisation seeks to help communities to be self sufficient urged women to take up the opportunity. 

The two organisations partnered in the project. 

” Lets leave Weza aside and see this vision alone,”

“We need to take this opportunity once and for all and mine is to give you hope, belief and skills.”

He further went on and quoted a bible verse when Apostle Paul saw a lightning strike on his way to kill Christians in Damascus. 

“Don’t think that your presence here is a mistake, but God can do what he did with Apostle Paul,and his life was never the same after that encounter.” 

After the training, women were awarded with certificates for completing the one day training course and will each receive one hundred live Sussex chicks to start the project.

Village head  Joshua Ncube urged the community to lead by example as this was a project that could transform the Mvuthu’s jurisdiction.