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Collaborating with our partners to ensure programing continues during lockdown
By: myadmin • January 27, 2021
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3727483480654566&id=585284304874515
The new normal of programming
By: myadmin • January 27, 2021
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We pay tribute to Right here Right now
By: myadmin • January 27, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/585284304874515/posts/3724794687590112/
Indeed we pay tribute to RhRn for the wonderful partnership we have had for the past 5 years. Although the project is done and they will no longer be operating in Zimbabwe their impact has been felt in the communities we served together.
Sex work as a livelihood and poverty alleviation strategy
By: myadmin • January 16, 2021
Sex work or generally referred to as prostitution has been of late embraced by women and girls as a poverty reduction strategy during covid 19, a pandemic which has ghastly depleted livelihoods and widened the poverty gap. Albeit the transmission risk factor attached to engaging in such a bodily activity, sex workers are left with no alternative or risk starving themselves and their families. Sex work is the most stigmatized and frowned upon informal profession in the world as much as the sex workers themselves are the most discriminated population in the communities they live, who have to contend with seclusion, physical, sexual abuse and exclusion from most public commodities and developmental agendas. Despite all these negatives, sex work is usually driven by poverty, lack of empowerment and unemployment. Even at a time when sex work is criminalized in the country, there is unabated hive of activity at touch lines where sex workers as young as 14 plie their trade just so to earn enough to buy the next meal as the earnings derived from the work is hardly enough to sustain anything outside a basic meal and mediocre accommodation. Most lenses are drawn on highlighting the dangers associated with the trade rather than evaluation how women and girls enter this profession as a livelihood and poverty reduction strategy which sp urs the need to program poverty alleviation and food security during disaster times so as to protect our women and girls. We managed to interview *Rutendo , a sex worker who was driven into sex work by poverty and having no education at all, it was either that or she succumbs together with all here dependents. She expressed her gratitude to ROOTS for giving her the much needed relief of a food pack as she had no one else to turn to.
Towards the promotion of food security during pandemics#2nd_wave_of_covid 19
By: myadmin • January 12, 2021
Poverty which is inherent in our communities is accercebated during such pandemics such as the covid_19 which has left all world economies on their knees and for such a developing country such as Zimbabwe where the majority of the population are based in the rural areas with limited livelihoods, the situation is dire next to catastrophic. Our very supportive partners#UNWoman have been generous enough to fund our initiative to provide safety nets to vulnerable groups through food hamper distribution which we have been undertaking since the recent 2nd wave of lockdown restrictions was imposed.
During this period we have seen the physical face of poverty on the people’s faces and heard heart wrenching stories of child headed households, the disabled, frail old aged people with no care givers and austracised sex workers who have no one else to turn to.
Sexual exploitation and transactional sex just to get a morsel of sadza has been on the increase too, which negates on milestones to end HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The transition risk factor of Corona virus is also escalated but it’s a damned if you do and damned if you don’t kind of scenario.
Our mandate as ROOTS still remains, to bridge the poverty gap for women and girls for them to achieve productive and wholesome lifestyles
