PRISCA MANYIWA-MASUKU
MIRROR REPORTER

KWEKWE – Kwekwe City has registered 80 938 beneficiaries for the Cash for Cereal Relief Fund Urban Relief Fund, Kwekwe District Social Development Officer, Samantha Matina has said.
She said this during a District Development Committee meeting last week.
The programme is for people who are food insecure and is sponsored by Government. Beneficiaries will get cash transfers. Normally the programme has an average of 80 000 beneficiaries.
Martina said the names of the beneficiaries were collected through a door-to-door programme which has just been completed and the names will be sent to Social Welfare headquarters in Harare.
Meanwhile Assistant District Development Coordinator, Reason Machina said that the district will begin school feeding scheme targeting all rimary schools in urban rural areas.
Zimbabwe has a total of 4. 34 millionindividuals who are need of drought relief food this year because of the devastating El Nino induced drought. President Mnangagwa had taken to the international community to plead for food aid.
“We have completed the door-to-door registration of beneficiaries for Cash for Cereal Urban Relief Fund and we are now working on data capturing.
“We have 60 439 beneficiaries for Kwekwe and Redcliff has 20 544. After data capturing we will have the names submitted to the headoffice for disbursements to be done,” said Matina.
She told the committee that she was not yet sure of the time frame for the disbursements.
“Government has also introduced the school feeding scheme targeting all primary schools in both urban and rural areas. In urban areas, only high density suburbs will benefit whilst those in low density and private schools are not considered for the program.
“The program will start as soon as schools open and schools are encouraged to collect their food from Grain Marketing Board,” said Machina.