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Damaged infrastructure in parts of Bulilima District Plumtree

According to United Nations, Climate Justice insists on a shift towards a civil rights movement with the people and communities most vulnerable to climate impacts at heart. This is because climate change disproportionately affects the most vulnerable more, and this includes the poor, women, and young people. The recent events that have taken place in parts of Bulilima are a clarion call to climate justice in Zimbabwe and parts of Africa. Warning updates given by MSD further bolster the need to take climate justice seriously.

Parts of Bulilima district have in the past few days of the second week of October been hit by hailstorms and flash floods. This has left infrastructure which includes houses and schools in a number of areas around the district damaged. Through reports and surveys carried out by Community Climate Action Trust (CCAT) a number of houses and schools in the most rural parts of Bulilima have been damaged by the hailstorms. This has left families in the affected areas exposed and more susceptible to the elements.Information has also been gathered that the part of Maitengwe river which runs along the Plumtree-Botswana Border post has experienced flooding, with a likelihood of the situation worsening over the coming days if predictions from the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) are to go by.

Marginalised Rural communities of Bulilma, Mangwe, and several areas in Zimbabwe are vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change because of weaker infrastructure, and lack of resources in those areas to mitigate or adapt to the impacts. 

A call for climate justice to be served in the affected regions has to be much louder now than before if livelihood needs are to be met and poverty eradicated.
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