Mbengwi; villagers revive community work spirit, reopen disappearing roads.

Community work refers to a massive turn out of people of a particular community or communities to do a particular task that will benefit everyone in the community. Before the armed conflict different communities had days on which they mobilized and came out to either clean around, maintain a broken bridge or sensitize themselves on societal issues. Today, this community work has a new nomenclature. It is now referred to as local solution, to an existing problem.

Since the armed conflict started in 2016, the culture of community work was gradually eroded as people feared to gather in huge crowds for fear of being targeted by either parties involved in the armed conflict or being caught by a straying bullet.

On Monday December 6th, the people of Sang, Meh, Upper Wumnebit/ Mbengbu communities located in the Tondig Zone of the Meta clan revived the community work spirit, by uniting their energies in clearing both sides of the road, which had already been narrowed by grass making it easier for accidents to occur.

The road was being opened up in the last five years by burning the grass, a practice these communities have found detrimental to their existence as ecosystems are destroyed, and more Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere during the process.

The success of this joint effort has presented an opportunity for the communities to be more united in development. In the days ahead, they will be having an executive that will aid in the coordination of community efforts in the localities.

Story: Mbuh Stella

Photos Credit: Mbengwi Online

Comments

Anonymous said…

I wish this community work spirit infects every other Community. Local solutions have remained the most effective way of engaging local development

7 December 2021 at 00:52

OJ SLIM MEDIA said…

Well said. It is our collective wish to see this spirit return so as to have our communities clean and developed without waiting for external help.

7 December 2021 at 04:23

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