On Monday the 2nd of April 2018, Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) conducted a Vendors Voter Educators training workshop at The Extra Mile Leisure Center located at Mbudzi Round about Bus Terminus in Harare South Constituency. The workshop was attended by 153 vendors drawn from surrounding high density suburbs such as Hopley, Waterfalls, Chigwende, Ushewokunze and Northly Park. The aim of the workshop was to complement the already existing programmes under the BVR Campaign that VISET is conducting. The workshop focused on training a new group of Socio-Economic Champions (SOCHAMPs) to create a new pool of members who will be conducting vendor to vendor street talks.
The street talks are being conducted in an effort to enhance knowledge and understanding of young vendors and vendors living with disabilities on electoral processes, particularly voter registration, voters roll inspection and voting. The second objective of the workshop was also to facilitate the registration of all members who have not yet registered to vote in the upcoming elections. Members who have hearing impairments found the workshop to be of importance as they had questions around the BVR process.
Source: Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET)
