PUMULA YOUTH LEADERSHIP FORUM
Pumula is a growing suburb within the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. It has three Wards which are Ward 17, 19 and 27. The suburb of Pumula has one youth center for all the three Wards. This youth center is therefore a safe space for young people spaces within the suburb and a need to utilize it for the development of youth is necessary.
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| Stanley Moyo - Public Relations |
Speaking to the Public relations officer, Mr. Stanley Moyo, The Pumula Youth Leadership Forum (PYLF) has been found , on the 26th of September 2019, so as to unite all the youth leaders within Pumula to address challenges which are faced by young people in the community. Young leaders from churches, resident associations, youth led organizations, village committees and political parties are the main target to be part of this youth forum.
A number of issues face young people in Pumula and these issues have been raised to office barriers within Pumula. Therefore they has been a need to create a platform were young leaders can dialogue on they own on these issues affecting youths and take those solutions to the office barriers in Bulawayo.
Pumula Youth Leadership Forum, wants to create a safe platform were young people can dialogue in a peaceful manner. It also aims to amplify the voices of the youths within the community in terms of community development, decision making process and also on influencing policy at a national levels as well.
The vision for Pumula Youth Leadership Forum is to create and nurture youth leaders who are social accountable, can advocate for youth issues and can influence decision making processes within Pumula.
The objectives of the Youth Forum are to:
1) Create a platform for young people indifferent leadership positions to share ideas and sharpen each other to be better leaders of today, tomorrow and the future.
2) Give space for all youth leaders to make their own contributions on different development issues.
3) Make an impact in the social and moral fabric of the community through active participation in discussion and responsible decision making.
Currently, the forum has 3 ongoing programs running under its establishment. These include:
1. Imvelo Youth Project
2. Pumula Youth Desk
3. Food relief for vulnerable communities
1. Imvelo Youth Project
The Imvelo youth project was initiated on November 22 2019. At its ground breaking ceremony Ward 17 Councillor S Moyo and Deputy Director Housing Mrs T Khumalo planted our first tree indigenous tree at the Pumula Library with three trees being planted on the day.
So far the project has grown 10 trees around Pumula as a mitigation measure to climate change. Currently the project has around 350 trees in they nursery with an average of ten trees being potted every day. Also the project collected over 5000 sands of different trees to create they own sand bank of Indigenous and exotic trees.
In 2020 the project will be scaling up its mitigation measure of planting trees to address the impact of climate change. The project was set to realize an urgent need to start addressing climate change and working towards the achievement of the 13th Sustainable development goal. The Tree Friday Initiative will be rolled out in 2020 under the project.
2.Pumula Youth Desk
This project was established so as to provide relevant and accurate information that will promote active participation of young people in decision making processes in the community.
It also aims provide reliable and accurate information to the youth in the community as well as ensure that young people are aware of all the rights and services available to them and have access to them.
The PYLF’s youth desk objective is to make sure that young people make informed, positive, safe and responsible decisions on political, economical and social matters.
The Pumula Youth Desk is located at the Pumula housing office at office 11. It was opened on the 22 of November 2019. The desk has been mobile in two occasions, attending sports galas hosted in Robert Sinyoka and St Peters. A total of 235 young people have visited the youth desk with 126 collecting a variety of IEC material from the desk. The idea of the youth desk is being able to provide information to all young people in Pumula. A number of Stakeholders have provided IEC material and these are Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Legal Resource Centre, PSI Zimbabwe, Active Youth Zimbabwe, Youth for Human Rights Zimbabwe and Christian Alliance.
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