CommuTalk Reporter
GWERU: A fitness social club has taken the fight against drug and substance abuse to the streets, hoping from one city to another across the country, while urging youths to engage in various sporting disciplines as a way of dealing with the menace that is ravaging society.
The fitness social club is leaving nothing to chance in a bid to deal with the drug and substance abuse, which is threatening generations as it is moving with a team of fitness trainers and counsellors to help youths understand the dangers of partaking in drugs.
Kristal Fitness Club Director Lycan White says they have since covered Harare and Mutare and currently camped in Gweru where they are moving from one suburb to the other and providing the much-needed training and counselling on drug and substance abuse.
“We have seen government’s initiative in fighting the vice. We said to ourselves, we also have a duty to play in preserving the future generations. The issue of drug and substance abuse is real and most people only want to act when it is your relative or child involved.
“We need to take up strides in dealing with this problem if we are to win the war and thus our message is very clear, let us work together in fighting the scourge,” White said.
Speaking on their activities, the club’s counsellor Kristal Stoddart said, the issue of proper counselling and engaging in sporting disciplines is critical if people are to shake off addiction associated with the bad habit.
“A lot of people end up being addicts as a result of trying to experiment. A lot of people are going through a lot and some end up thinking that engaging in drugs is a form of escape yet they end up messed up.
“As such we need to continuously give people counselling on financial discipline and living within their means,” Stoddart added.
Efforts by the social fitness club are highly commendable as they feed into the country’s Multi- Sectoral Drug and Substance Abuse Plan 2024 to 2030, which was approved by Cabinet last year, with a view to deal with the vice which is threatening future generations.
