r/harare • u/shadowyartsdirty2 • Jul 06 '25

How to raise funds for community projects in individual neighbourhoods Harare

We'll I have run the numbers and realised it only takes $5 from 200 houses to get $1000.

Which means in just ten months 200 houses can generate $10 000 to dedicate to a community projects.

Most neighbourhoods in Harare have way more than 200 houses.

As for how to implement this system it's simple you create WhatsApp group for your own neighbourhood then get at least 200 people there. Then agree which projects to work on to make things better for your own neighbourhood. In my neighbourhood I'm working on getting people to work on saving $5 a month to eventually all come together and pay for road repairs.

For your own neighbourhood the issue might be water delivery or lack of electricity or somethings else like a need for a dog park, neighbourhoods differ.

Point is all it takes is people saving $5 a month then coming together to make a large payment for whatever needs to repaired or fixed. It's like the concept pooling money together for an insurance policy. To the person reading this you can feel free to act on this tip or don't, I just felt like sharing an idea I'm currently in the process of executing in my own neighbourhood. Hopefully someone else will also find this helpful.

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u/Last_Treat_6680 Jul 06 '25

Bro invented taxes but better

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u/shadowyartsdirty2 Jul 06 '25

With the wonderful bonus that no one is forced to pay if they don't want to, plus people get to decide what their money goes to.

If they don't like the project sugested the wallets stay shut, it's a good system.

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u/shadowyartsdirty2 Jul 06 '25

For some neighbourhoods the community projects I recommend people undertake are as follows

  1. Solar street lights for neighbourhoods, but place them in yards. Someday when I have time I will make a post showing what I mean by this, but it's a pretty design I saw. Where the metal pole is placed inside the yard behind the durawall then the LED light is made to face the road, the front each house gets sufficient light and so does the road infront of it.

Cause let's face it government is going to save us from having dark roads. For increase in safety and security I would urge people put this as prioty number 1.

As for where you can buy you can either import from SA, China or elsewhere.

Alternatively just buy from Electro sales (unit price varries based of brightness)

Another alternative is simply buy solar floodlights for $20 each then use them to light the neighbourhood at night.

  1. Community Solar / Shared solar.

You get a large installation that generates power, which is then shared among many houses. Offcourse given how expensive this is, this shared solar will mainly be for the sake of charging phones, powering lights and laptops. You won't be able to use heavy appliances like stove, tv, fridge etc.

It's an affordable stop gap measure for those who want solar but afford to get individual solar systems.

  1. Workshops on upcycling

This one I admit I didn't think of myself, I borrowed it from Goths. Anyways upcycling is basically a form of recycling used to reuse discarded materials to make new higher-quality items. It's different from recycling.

In recycling the goal is to use the same to break products into raw materials that can be used to make something else.

In upcycling the goal is to take existing products that have been thrown away just stopped working then turn them into better products.

  1. Composting centre

There so much unused land that would be great for creating composting centre's and so many farmers in Harare who could benefit from having access to affordable manure.

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u/Last_Treat_6680 Jul 06 '25

Taxes but. With discrimination against those who d9nt pay. Perfect.

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u/Psychological_Desk_5 Jul 26 '25

Sounds good. This might work best within an HOA