Disaster & Environmental Management Trust (DEMT)

A movement of rural youth in mining-affected regions organizing to demand community-level change and policy reforms that protect environmental and public health

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Today our movement members from mining regions participated in the national dissemination of sector-specific workplans under Zimbabwe’s Multisectoral Accountability Framework for TB (MAF-TB), convened by the Ministry of Health and Child Care.

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DEMT is going to Paris. 🇿🇼🇫🇷

We are proud to announce our selection for the 2026 Paris Peace Forum. Selected among 40 projects from 607 applications, DEMT will take Zimbabwe’s rural youth-led response to mining & land degradation to a global platform. https://t.co/ZOnOsv9dFj

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4 miners confirmed dead after shaft at Zvimba gold mine collapses

♦️ No survivors after overnight mine accident

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On this World Rural Development Day, women living in mining adjacent villages reminded us that clean energy minerals are not clean when they destroy homes, drive land dispossession of their farmland, and deepen poverty. Justice must accompany the transition.

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Today, on World Rural Development Day, DEMT stands with rural communities across Zimbabwe. As a rural youth movement rooted in mining-affected areas, we celebrate the strength of rural people while calling for greater investment, and opportunities that leave no community behind.

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Women farmers participating in our documentation forums have raised concerns over granite rock offcuts and infertile gravel being dumped onto communal and agricultural land. Productive fields are being turned into wastelands, undermining food security and rural livelihoods.

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Women in mining communities continue to document the lived realities of mining-affected families in Mutoko. They report cracked homes & keeping windows shut throughout the day as endless streams of trucks carrying mineral blanket homes with dust from poorly maintained roads.

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Women in Mutoko are raising alarm over cracked and collapsing homes caused by relentless blasting and heavy vibrations from granite mining operations. Communities demand accountability, compensation, and protection of their constitutional right to a safe environment.

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On this #DayofTheAfricaChild, we celebrate the young people of rural Zimbabwe who are protecting their land, water, and environment for future generations. Africa's wealth is not only beneath the ground, but in the communities and ecosystems that sustain life.

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Land is what we have in common. It feeds us, sustains us, and connects generations. As rural youth, we have a responsibility to protect the soil, water, forests, and ecosystems that sustain life. Our future depends on the choices we make today.
#EnvironmentalJustice 💚🤍

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Community boreholes that sustained families for years are drying up, forcing women & girls to walk longer distances in search of water. Our movement members are documenting these realities and calling for responsible mining that protects community water sources.

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The success of mining policy will not be judged by tonnes exported or revenues generated alone. It will be judged by whether communities in Mutoko, Marange, Hwange, Shurugwi and across Zimbabwe experience improved livelihoods, healthy ecosystems and dignified futures.

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This #WorldEnvironmentDay, we stand with rural communities on the frontlines of environmental change. Environmental justice means protecting land, water, health, & livelihoods. The environment is not separate from us. It is where we live, farm, work, & build our future.

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Last week, we joined the launch of the Politically Smart Advocacy Playbook by @ZimPeaceProject, with support from @CAID_Zimbabwe. A timely resource for strengthening evidence-based, strategic, and impactful advocacy across Zimbabwe.

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Big News: Zimbabwe Approves a New National Youth Policy: From the mining communities of Zimbabwe, we welcome the new National Youth Policy. Young people are not beneficiaries of development, they are its drivers. Implementation starts now.

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Environmental impacts are often discussed in reports.
For rural communities, they are visible in soil quality, water access, food systems, and health realities.

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Africa Day is a reminder that communities across the continent continue organising, resisting, rebuilding, & shaping their own futures. We are rural youth in mining-affected communities working together to protect our health, environment, & livelihoods.

Happy Africa Day. 🌍💚🤍

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Environmental justice begins with listening to the people living closest to environmental change. Across mining-affected communities, rural families continue adapting to realities they did not create.

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We are not an NGO speaking for communities. We are rural youth organising around the realities we live every day, mining impacts, environmental degradation, water stress, and local accountability. Our work is rooted in lived experience. 💚🤍

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This is not just a mining site. It is a changing rural ecosystem affecting land, water, livelihoods, and community health in Mutoko. Rural communities must have a voice in decisions shaping their environment and future.