Introducing CHIPRA.
The Chitungwiza progressive Residents association (CHIPRA)
is a membership-based association for residents of Chitungwiza and the
surrounding peri-urban areas like Nyatsime, Zico and Musona villages.
CHIPRA is a membership-based residents association formed by
Chitungwiza residents to articulate and defend their rights, needs and
aspirations on issues of service delivery and housing fall within the sphere of
local governance.
CHIPRA is crowdsourcing for ideas and material support for a ground-breaking urban renewal project that will
facilitate the refurbishment, redesigning and reopening of rundown, neglected
and out of operation public toilet buildings at Zengeza Five shopping centre in
Chitungwiza. Zengeza Five being the starting point and if the idea gains currency and sustainability, the project will be extended to all public toilets in Chitungwiza and beyond.
Background facts are that the local authority- the Chitungwiza Municipality has failed to maintain and keep operational public toilets in the town and most if not all have been closed down and abandoned created messy health hazards at popular shopping centres.
CHIPRA believes that closing public toilets robs chitungwiza residents of their dignity as they are forced to relieve themselves in the open. Its also compromises residents right to health and creates sanitation hazards.
CHIPRA envisages a situation were the public toilets will be refurbished and brought back into
operation and the grounds will be redesigned into public bathing facilities
through the addition of shower cubicles and the sinking of a borehole to
provide the necessary water.
It invites residents, stakeholders and other experts to proffer solutions on how the toilets can be kept open operational clean and welcoming to the men, women and children of chitungwiza who would like to have ago.
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