Patsaka Trust’s current programming is focused on addressing priority community needs through home grown or local solutions. Youth are at the forefront of the development process. Thus they are empowered to be active decision makers and advocates as well as agents for development. The organization mainly makes use of two platforms of service delivery which are the existing community structures, and the youth to provide quality and comprehensive services to the community. In short Patsaka Trust harnesses and directs all resources in one chosen direction of promoting community development through youth led interventions in four thematic areas:
i. Women Development and Emancipation, Household Economic strengthening
ii. Youth Development & Empowerment
iii. Educational and Constitutionalism;
iv. Community level advocacy through Media and Media Diversity
Main Activities:
v Awareness & Advocacy campaigns targeting both men & women in the community of Kariba and its environs
v Knowledge and Information Dissemination (creating access to information within the community of Kariba and surroundings)
v Provision of basic education to the community of Kariba and surroundings in order to create conducive environment for benefiting from and utilising social, political and economic opportunities and services.
v Capacitating the youth in Kariba through entrepreneurship skills, income generating projects, access to finance and skills in business development services.
Fishing will always be an option in Kariba.
Why trading as KASAMBABEZI FM?
The Tonga people were compellingly relocated from their homes on the banks of the Zambezi River to make way for the building of Lake Kariba in the 1950s. They had challenges in clearing their new land the wild animals in the area caused which were;"problems of life and death." Meandering through eight countries, the Zambezi is Africa’s fourth largest river; indirectly affecting over 128 million lives as a source of water and food. Sharing a border between Zimbabwe and Zambia is Lake Kariba, one of the world’s largest man-made reservoirs, which provides hydroelectric power and supports a fishing and tourism industry. It all sounds positive, yet we assert that “the basin is also home to some of the most acute vulnerability in southern Africa." In 1956, the Tonga were displaced from their ancestral home on the Zambezi River to make way for the building of the dam, and resettled further inland. The original name of the river, ‘Kasambabezi’, is a Tonga name meaning,” only those who know the river can bath in it.” This was mainly because you were supposed to be careful when taking bath on the banks of the river as it is infested with crocodiles. The name is made up of two words, “kasamba” – meaning “those who bath”, and “bezi”– for “should know”. The phrase references Tonga knowledge of the deep water and shows the close relationship society had with ‘their’ river. The radio is therefore the soul of the society and only those who know its importance will treasure it.
