A UNITED States of America (USA)-based organisation — The Sister Accord — which launched its first African chapter in Zimbabwe over the weekend, is set to empower women and girls by providing them with funds to start profit-making projects. The Sonia Jackson Myles-founded organisation, formed eight years ago, has set a target of creating a…
THE Society for Pre and Postnatal Services (Spans) in collaboration with the International Marce Society (IMS) is raising awareness on maternal mental…
A LOCAL non-governmental organisation (NGO) has vowed to escalate its battle to end forced early child marriages which continue to destroy the lives of young girls across the country on a yearly basis. Currently, emotions are running high following the death, in July, of 14-year-old Marange girl — Annah Machaya — at a Johanne Marange…
A RWANDESE national Israel Shiminana has been denied a Zimbabwean citizenship despite having been married to a local woman for more than five years. Shiminana, who came to Zimbabwe in 2003, has failed to secure a citizenship after numerous requests to the Home Affairs ministry since 2013. “My wife wrote various letters to the ministry…
MINISTRY of Health has recently been travelling across Zimbabwe training health workers on mental health and provision of psycho-social support services because people have been emotionally affected by Covid-19. This has also seen an interfaith virtual workshop taking place so that religious leaders and other stakeholders can explore how they can offer compassion to grieving…
THE DEAF Zimbabwe Trust (DZT) has made recommendations to the government and relevant stakeholders to come up with initiatives to support children with disabilities in the run-up to the reopening of schools. DZT director and founder Barbra Nyangairi, said children with disabilities have continually been left out of return-to-school plans since learning institutions were closed…
HARARE’s district Aids coordinator, Agnes Dembedza has urged adolescent girls to have the power to negotiate for safe sex when indulging with much older men. Dembedza said there is need to acknowledge that there is a lot of intergenerational sexual activity across the country which sees much young women sleeping with men twice their age….
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza says women business owners must be brave enough to embrace technological innovation to boost their incomes, especially during this Covid-19 pandemic. Since the advent of the pandemic in March last year, those businesses which had already adopted an e-commerce approach have managed to stay afloat since they can interact…
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has authorised the use of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccine after the government…
THE National Aids Council (Nac) outreach programmes to help fight HIV/Aids have been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nac chief executive Bernard Madzima said the travel restrictions that have been in place ever since the outbreak Covid-19 have made it difficult to conduct their work in most areas around the country. Speaking during a…
