So its looking good! Yesterday was our final day for logistics planning and we met at Paramount in Hatfield Harare. Thank you Clara Mapfumo ‘Ntombi Yekanyi’ for a well organised meeting and website launch.
For those not aware of the purpose of the gathering-the group ZBIN has a Mozambique Business Opportunities Group which was formed in October 2015. The group is made up of Zimbabweans from across the globe and we share business opportunity information about Mozambique.
We formed the group after realising that no one is talking about business opportunities in our eastern neighbour. Whenever Mozambique is covered in the mainstream media, they are mostly concentrating on the negative side of Mozambique-wars,poverty and natural disasters. So this specific ZBIN group identify opportunities that abound in Mozambique despite the challenges that exist there.
A lot of foreigners especially South Africans are busy investing there, a lot of Portuguese, Brazilians and Chinese are in Mozambique. If there are no opportunities, so what are they doing there?
We realised that the biggest hurdle when it comes to Mozambique opportunities is that of INFORMATION. There is a vast knowledge gap that exist and our group is trying its best to ensure that we remove the gap in information. We have already toured Mozambique twice-In March and April and our next trip is in December to Tete.
We were therefore putting final touches on logistics for the trip and the good news is that all is now inorder. Inorder to be inclusive, we have incorporated members from outside Harare. Two members will be from Mutare, One from Masvingo, One from Zvishavane and Botswana. A total of 20 ZBIN members will make the trip to Tete which is less than 350 kilometres from Harare.
The purpose of the tour being identification of business opportunities in Tete, tour of companies, business ventures that are run by Mozambicans and Zimbos. A group Admin called Kiva will be helping the group in terms of logistics in Mozambique. So all is set and we hope to hear from this group when they come back.
We are unfortunately not able to add any new member to the Tete touring group at the moment.
Website Launch
We also launched our website yesterday-Thanks a lot for the support to everyone who managed to come. From Clara and her husband, Odetta Savieri, Tariro Kutadza and everyone. I will not forget our 2 loyal group members who drove from Nyanga. Thank you guys for the support. The website is just over a week in operation but the response from members has been overwhelming. We still need to improve in a lot of areas though and we believe that more will be achieved when we recruit a Forum CEO.
So Mwashuma yaambo, Thank you guys for the support.
