After embarking on a project to raise awareness that water resource management is a very important issue from several angles such as agriculture, energy generation, industry, transport and fisheries, village heads and their subjects in Ward 10 agreed to implement projects by considering recommendations made by the visiting InnoEnergy SELECT research team from Stockholm and Barcelona.

The project proposals produced a “popcorn effect” with different types of associations or cooperatives being suggested for the financial management of each and every project on the table. A decision was then made at an Indaba (symposium) on 21 May 2017, attended by the Village Heads; education and health organisations; church, women and youth organisations; business representatives and Agritex to establish a Community Development Council. The outcome of several consultations and briefings, culminated in the holding of a second Indaba on September 9, 2017 that approved the formation of the Ward 10 Community Development Council.

On 21 October, 2017, a new Constitution for Ward 10 Community Development Council was signed after the draft had been given a legal format by the chosen Lawyers for Human Rights in Harare. And on October 27, 2017 the Constitution was duly signed by the founding trustees of the CDC to establish corporate status for Ward 10.

Registration of Ward 10 Community Development Council took effect on November 6, 2017 and this led to a meeting of the CDC’s Trustees that authorized the opening of a bank account with Steward Bank, Mutare on 20 January 2018.

Fortune DC Ambassador, Learnmore Matingo, presenting the functioning of the new banking system that is now being developed with the collaboration of Steward Bank, Zimbabwe.