THE ROTARY Club of Chicago in the United States together with the Belmont District Rotary Club Bulawayo on Tuesday donated material worth over $10 000 to V2 Enterprises in a bid to help youths empower themselves through agriculture.
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The clubs donated a greenhouse, a borehole, a Nissan Vanette truck, a Nissan van and a water tank to be used to help V2 Enterprise members in farming projects being undertaken at a plot in Douglasdale.
Michael Faris, representative of the Rotary Club 1 in Chicago and board member of the V2 Enterprises in Chicago, handed over the donations to the club, saying members in the US were impressed with the progress the enterprise had shown since its birth in 2010 and decided to stretch a financial hand.
“The transformation in this place since 2010 is stunning, considering the little resources you had, so now we have the confidence that with enough resources you could be more sustainable and meet the needs of your community,” he said.
“We as the Rotary Club of Chicago and Belmont, are proud that we are able to help youths like you from any part of the world do amazing things in your communities.”
V2 Enterprises founder Elizabeth Mangamhi expressed gratitude over the donations and explained they would go a long way in helping empower the youths since they came at the right time when resources were needed most. “We are happy to receive these gifts from the Rotary Club 1 and we will use them to empower our youths to have entrepreneurship skills and improve our economy,” she said.
“Transport will no longer be a problem, as we will use the van to transport our youths from their homes to our place of work.”
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Faris said their Rotary Club was eagerly awaiting new ideas for projects for the sustainable development of any community so they could finance them if the aid was needed.
“We very much hope people could come up with projects for development, because there is a lot of opportunity for collaborations,” he said.
“Funding is not a problem, but we only need ideas to be presented and this is what we are working on this year,” he said.
V2 Enterprises is a youth-led agribusiness and trade school that gives an opportunity to youths to acquire skills that would help them earn income, find employment or start their own businesses in agriculture.
Chicago Rotary Club was the first to be created internationally and has partnered with the Belmont one in Bulawayo to empower youths.
