Zithande Rural Development NPC – leaders in rural community development

Building our Rural Communities.

Rural communities are pillars of any development. Supporting rural communities can only be the greatest investment any nation can undertake.

Welcome to Zithande Rural Development

Zithande Rural Development is a development organisation located in the rural Kwazulu Natal province, working with local rural communities to uplift the lives of these communities. The organisation has been created by young women to respond to the challenges facing rural communities in the Ndwedwe rural and other part of the province. The organisation’s programmes and activities are apolitical and non-discriminatory in nature and dealings. Zithande Rural Development is a registered Non-profit company (NPC) with the company and intellectual property commission (CIPC) Reg. No. 2015/371832/08 and a registered Non-profit Organisation (NPO) with the national department of social development (DSD) Reg. No. 185-598-NPO.

Rural women empowerment

Rural women are key agents for achieving the transformational economic, environmental and social change required for sustainable development. But limited access to credit, healthcare and education are among the many challenges they face which are further aggravated by the global food and economic crisis. Empowering them is key not only to the wellbeing of individuals, families and rural communities but also to overall economic productivity.

Environment management

The environment is key to human life and its destruction is shortcut to mankind self-destruction. For this the protection of our environment is an important practice human should preserve. This programme looks to strengthen rural communities, enabling them to reverse land degradation and desertification trends in our rural settings, to adopt sustainable land and water management system...

Skills development

The youth in this life constitute the future of any nation as it is from the young people that our future leaders come. Preparing the youth for future responsibilities is noble duty of any government. Unfortunately we live in settings where opportunities for our young people become more and more scarce. In the context of our country, the majority of young people come from previously disadvantaged population and still live in rural settings. Many access schools in very difficult conditions.

10 FEBRUARY, 2017. Farm workers are seen working the fields. Bekendvlei Farm in the North West. It was bought by the government a number of years ago and mismanaged. It is now back to its former glory after a new manager started there. PHOTOGRAPH: ALON SKUY

Our Vision and

Mission

Vision: become leaders in rural community development.

Mission: ZiRD strives for the reduction of poverty and its related diseases by implementing development initiatives in rural communities.

Our Focus Areas

Through its technical assistance operations, ZiRD assists in local efforts to identify appropriate rural development solutions compatible with specific circumstances of rural communities. Our emphasis is placed on three complementary fields of activity:

(a) Strengthening local capacity to identify and prepare better programmes and projects, including support for the formulation of policies for improving the general framework of rural development.

(b) Mobilising the efforts of rural populations, which entails encouraging their participation in decision-making, organisational activities, training and rural education, and social communications.

(c) Promoting programmes and projects that will contribute to capitalising and galvanising the rural economy, and that will act on the mechanisms for the retention and reinvestment of surpluses generated in rural areas.

(d) Gender equality and women empowerment in relation to realization of sexual reproductive health rights and mitigating the impact of HIV in rural settings.

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