May 2023

Let us look into what happened in May

Projects are mere temporary endeavours meant to address needs. However, the fruits of the Borehole diaries project continue to be long-lived way after the project termination. Borehole Diaries sought to engage community members on cases of Gender Based Violence cases at water collation points. We witnessed the project in action past its lifeline when we visited a water collection point in Unit A. Like any water collection day, a group had come to fetch water. One woman who had her 6 buckets spoke to us expressing gratitude to the borehole committee.

Fighting GBV is not an event but a continuous commitment. Shamwari Yemwanasikana attended the Spotlight Initiative #ShakeoffGBV event at National Arts Gallery where we had a Zumba session led by Zorro Trained.

The University of Zimbabwe Open Day Facility Visit

Shamwari Yemwanasikana attended the Open Day Facility Visit at The University of Zimbabwe organized by the Department of Creative Media Communications. Present were the department 4th year students, ZBC Creative Manager, Herald Manager, WISSPAS and SYS, and the theme for the day was “Industry meets Academia”.
Students from the Department of Creative Media and Communications exhibited their projects. From Fine Arts, there were portraits and canvas paintings, TV and Film displayed their documentaries and movie available on YouTube. There was also a stand on university newspapers.
Mr Mhandu, the guest of Honour who is the Creative Manager for ZBC gave a word of advice for students to be competent if they want to make it in the media industry. They need to have interest. He gave expectations for the radio and TV industry, which is grooming and etiquette, confidence, good communication and interpersonal skills etc. He said branding is key in creative work for any industry. SYS gave insights into the role of the media department and shared best practices on dissemination of information, as well as the role of communication and media in advancing girls’ rights advocacy, fundraising and awareness raising were some of the shared roles. SYS also, highlighted some of the work aligned to the department, which can be harnessed into partnership through documentaries, newspaper articles, radio session, TV sessions, murals, jingles, music, poems and social media engagements.