TARISAI MAZARURA

Economic Justice and Education and training involve the economic emancipation of women and the elderly through education and training. In my ward I have created an organisation called National Association for Family Foster Care (NAFFOC). This organisation has three groups within it namely Ebenezer Women ’s group for mushroom growing, the elderly rearing rabbits, and Knowe Horticulture. National Association for Family Foster Care has facilitated the creation of a platform and coalition for peer learning networking, information sharing and exchange of ideas on the promotion of Economic Justice, eradicating social and economic inequalities including gender inequalities, and the promotion and advocating for gender mainstreaming and gender friendly policies. If society is not caring we might think that we are solving these problems and yet we will be transferring the problems to the less privileged and socially disadvantaged members of our society ’. The inspiring words by the chairperson of National Association for Family Foster Care made everyone at a community mobilisation meeting to realise the need combined efforts in fighting gender inequalities which perpetuates poverty among less privileged groups.National Association for Family Foster Care has facilitated the establishment of a coalition of Norton based civil society organisations for the effective promotion of economic justice through peer learning network and organisational capacity building through participatory training and education. The organisation has partnered Institute of Social Work, a membership governed training organisation of social workers, in order to achieve this objective. The coalition includes the following Norton based organisations, CBOs, governments departments, business organisations and residents associations. The aim of the alliance is to facilitate the creation of a platform for peer learning networks, information sharing and exchange of ideas through participatory training workshops, seminars, expos, breakfast meetings, winter and summer schools, refresher courses among others. This have achieved a better understanding of economic justice, a strong voice on gender friendly economic policies for the promotion of gender equality and gender mainstreaming, economic empowerment of the socially disadvantaged groups through training on mushroom production, organic poultry, fish and crocodile farming, business management and marketing. This has been achieved through reaching every targeted beneficiaries