Claim: Community Support through Exchange.
This project arose due to the economic and political situation currently affecting Zimbabweans. This project creates sustainable relationships within communities through people helping and sharing with each other what they have and taking care of each other where the government has failed. There are many basic commodities that the average Zimbabwean has little or no access to such as bread, milk, eggs, maize meal, meat, medication, electricity and water and as a result, people within communities specifically, the Mount Pleasant Community, Harare Zimbabwe, are exchanging and sharing what they have access to. This may include products or services for example, if one family has access to cows, two or more families may put money together and collectively purchase a whole cow and share the meat among themselves. This particular case however, is about water supply. Owing to the economic, situation the water supply is often cut off every week for about a week, sometimes longer and unless one has access to a borehole, one has no access to clean water .As a result, those who have boreholes on their property often give water to those without in exchange for a service or products such as fruit, eggs, sugar vegetables or whatever the person has in abundance or has access to that maybe scarce within the formal supply chain in the country.
Place: Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Service idea: Product or service sharing and exchange within Mount Pleasant Community Harare Zimbabwe.
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