Gold mining company ploughing back to the community

Gold mining company DTZ-Ozgeo has donated five computers to Premier Primary School (Mutasa District) and Charleswood Primary school (Chimanimani district).

DTZ officials from right Clara Ngwenya and  Pio Chiradza lead in the handing over of computers to Charleswood Primary School headmaster, Charles Mandega extreme left while school officials look on  in Chimanimani last week.
DTZ officials from right Clara Ngwenya and Pio Chiradza lead in the handing over of computers to Charleswood Primary School headmaster, Charles Mandega extreme left while school officials look on in Chimanimani last week.

It also donated school furniture and renovated classroom blocks to both schools. An elated Premier School headmaster, Kennedy Masiyakurima promised to put the computers to good use. His counterpart at Charleswood, Godfrey Mandega said: “By exposing pupils to computers at young ages, they are exposed to a skill that adults have to catch up to. Pupils will be able to keep up with the Information age.”

Headman Amos Chikanga iof Mutasa District said: “Since 1939 pupils at Premier Primary School used to learn while seated on the floor. Our children are now able to learn in a more conducive environment. The computers have offered another chance for our children to be technologically empowered and these children are our future.”

Chief Ngorima in Chimanimani said: “Access to information is closely tied to productivity. The greater a worker’s productivity, the better he or she is paid. I want to urge our children to become role models of technology. Access to information improves governance.”

DTZ-Ozgeo Managing Director Ishmael Shilaev said his company dreamt of a day where people in the rural areas would have a say in controlling ICTs that are relevant to them. He said Zimbabwe was one of the most educated countries in the world and it was important to maintain this high level of educational standard.

The classroom block at Premier Primary School that was built in 1939
The classroom block at Premier Primary School that was built in 1939

The company has provided assistance to various organisations in Manicaland as part of its empowerment drive.

“We have helped the Tsvingwe community In Penhalonga by building a new water network in the suburb to ensure a reliable supply of clean water and we have also assisted the Mutasa Rural district council with opening of new roads and maintenance of existing ones,” he said.

In Chimanimani, the company has maintained some parts of the road to Chief Chikukwa’s. More than 220km of road has been repaired in Mutare town, Mutasa and Chimanimani district by DTZ using funds from the company.

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