By Memory Mudzani
Zimbabwe Organization for Youth in Politics (Z.O.Y.P) has been running a programme in Gokwe since last year with the agenda to discuss and educate women and youths on housing issues and gender responsive service delivery.
Polite Ndhlovu who is the director of ZOYP told this reporter that as an organization that works with youths and the miginalised groups they saw it fit for them to educate women and youths about the housing issues and to discuss their own views on this issue.
Ndhlovu said that during this program they train about forty people which include women and youths so that they can educate their fellow residents on the process taken for one to be an owner of a stand and to discuss challenges they face when trying to purchase land in their community.
He further said that they work with the council especially those from the housing department so as to make sure that residents are well informed and also with Gokwe residents association.
Ndhlovu said that they recently gave their traininee T-shirts and caps with a message empowering women and youths to apply for stands and promoting gender responsive service delivery.
He said that while they were doing this program women and youths who attended the program said that larger population of residents in Gokwe town is hustling for survival ,they don’t have decent employment so they suggested low housing costs which are affordable to youths and women .
Ndhlovu also said that Gokwe residents suggested that the council should stop selling land to land developers who then auction the land on exhibition prices putting residents in a sitituation where they cannot afford to buy stands but rather the council should be the one to sell the land to the residents.
Ndhlovu also said that residents suggested that the council should give residents on waiting list first preference when issuing stands and also for the removal of a fee, people should pay registration fee only.
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