NANGO Launches Social Service Delivery Campaign

The National Association of NGOs in Zimbabwe (NANGO) has launched a social service delivery campaign in Harare for residents to speak on problems they are facing in their neighborhood. The campaign is under the banner ‘sei sei Harare?‘ gives residents an opportunity to be monitors and reporters of the problems in their neighborhood.

Running from the 14th of October to 25 November 2011, Harare residents send three free SMS once a week on social service delivery problems in their neighborhood to the number 0774437777. They will be reporting on issues such as water shortages, power cuts, sewer bursts and uncollected garbage on weekly bases. The information is being mapped on the website www.pupurafakazazim.com, showing number of reports per neighborhood. Residents also state their street name and neighborhood so that reports produced area specific and it can be identified which areas were affected during a particular period...