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Jonpris Foundation Trust
February 29, 2012

Jonpris Foundation Trust is actively promoting interventions that will help rural and urban households to recover and sustainably improve their living environment so that it becomes easier for them to access their neighbourhoods and other life enhancing facilities. The Foundation Trust is assisting with the construction of a small bridge over Chipadze River in the Nyaduve Community of Makoni East District. The community came together to pool their manpower resources to gather the local material i.e. the poles, rocks and sand, whilst the Foundation donated the cement and the technical expertise required to construct a bridge of that nature.

The bridge under construction.

This bridge will help:

• The Community members, especially school children to easily cross the Chipadze River to nearby schools and clinic during the rain season;
• The sick and elderly to be carried in carts or cars to access the clinics that are also across the river in Mutasa District;
• Families planning to embark on market gardening and small livestock breeding to be able to transport their produce to the market across the bridge;
• The Community to ferry their dead relatives to the Community cemetery using a vehicle, instead of carrying on their shoulders over the long distances they have to travel and;
• To increase social cohesion between communities through easy access between and amongst themselves.

In addition, the Foundation Trust has also established a poultry club for the widowed and vulnerable women in that same community with the aim of enhancing their livelihoods and eliminating negative coping tendencies. The club members have volunteered to pool their resources to build the chicken huts, whilst the Foundation sources sponsorship for the building materials, the chickens and the feed. From the produce, they can get eggs for sale, sell the chickens, and diversify into nutrition gardens using manure from the produce.

Visit the Jonpris Foundation Trust fact sheet

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