Our work
Climate change
Helping communities read the risk, prepare for it, and recover from it.
Promotion of community based disaster risk reduction training and committees that help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change, strengthen resilience and protect the natural environment.
The work covers tree planting, climate-smart and conservation agriculture, environmental awareness, dam establishment and solarised irrigated community gardens, delivered in partnership with government, communities and local leadership from design through to implementation.
What this covers
- Community based disaster risk reduction committees and training
- Climate-smart and conservation agriculture
- Solarised irrigation for community gardens
- Dam establishment and rehabilitation
- Tree planting and environmental awareness
How it is delivered
In partnership, on the ground
Caritas Gweru delivers this pillar with government departments, communities, local leaders, parishes and other stakeholders. Communities identify the need, local structures are trained to carry the work, and ownership stays where it belongs.
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Our other pillars
Water, hygiene, sanitation and care for the environment
Safe water within reach, and community structures equipped to keep it flowing.
Livelihoods, food security and nutrition
Skills, inputs and gardens that move families from dependency to self-reliance.
Women empowerment, gender, child protection and safeguarding
Inclusion, protection and economic empowerment for women, children and people with disabilities.
Emergencies
Response, resilience and recovery when disaster disrupts community life.
Youth empowerment
Skills, enterprise and civic participation with young people across the diocese.
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Gifts to Caritas Gweru are put to work in the programme areas where the need is greatest, alongside the communities we serve.