No Drugs Should Be Taken, Focus Academy Advises Learners

By Desire Tshuma

Focus Academy (a boarding school in Waterfalls) has intensified its commitment to fight drugs and substance abuse within institutions of primary and secondary learning environments.

The school’s spokesperson Rumbidzai Musikambesa said,
“It is the duty of private schools to complement the government’s efforts to fight drugs and substance abuse scourge. We have launched various programmes and platforms which equip learners with skills to bring change amongst peers in various communities on how to fight drugs.”

“These youths who are most vulnerable to drugs and substance abuse are then trained as anti-drugs ambassadors who will be responsible for rehabilitation, reintegration and abstinence from abusing such. We have anti-drugs and substance abuse ambassadors within and outside school, who help other vulnerable peers amongst various communities to get out of drugs scourge,” Musikambesa said.

“So during holidays when they are off school campus, we urge them to continue to engage other peers in fighting the scourge. We have also crafted and provide opportunity for them to engage in roles plays, dramas and story-telling activities as a means to campaign against abusing drugs and substances,” Musikambesa added

Meanwhile,President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set up an inter-ministerial taskforce on drug and substance abuse as part of his administration’s efforts to end the scourge which remains a great threat to the attainment of Vision 2030