Report Zimbabwe May 2022
Cover photo: market in Hatcliffe, high density (poor) district in the north of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Photo: palm trees in my garden in Mount Pleasant, a low density (rich) district in the north west of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Table of Contents
1 How is work in the NGO?..........................4 2 Who is my Zimbabwean family?................7 3 What do we eat?......................................10
Photo: sunrise in the savanna in the northern outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe.
1 How is work in the NGO? The Forum for African Women Educationalists Zimbabwe Chapter (FAWEZI) is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) registered as a Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) in 1998/1999. FAWEZI is part of a pan-African membership NGO, the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) based in Nairobi, Kenya, and spread over 14 other African countries. It was founded by five African women ministers of education in 1992. FAWE is a membership organisation for everyone promoting My first month in Harare, Zimbabwe has flown by. The work with FAWEZI is very interesting and I can learn a lot. It is quite busy.
education of girl children. The FAWEZI team in Harare, Zimbabwe consists of 13 people including the driver and me as an intern. I am part of the subteam “Information and Communication”. My tasks are social media, enhancing the visibility of the NGO, researching about crowdfunding and international funds, and attending and participating in community workshops. Photo: induction team training and photo shoot with the complete FAWEZI team in Harare, Zimbabwe.
From left to right: Loverage (info and comms), Nqobile (chairperson, my supervisor), Katalin (intern), Hazel (finance), Mr. Kiwane (driver), Mildred (ifinance), Edmond (monitoring, evaluation), Ms. Vangani (in blue, receptionist), Rujeko (at back, social worker), Runyararo (volunteer), Sandra (volunteer, social worker), Lydia (execotive director, boss), Wendy (volunteer).
Photo: Office complex at Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education MoPSE), where FAWEZI rents its offices we do not have running water on the first oor).
Follow FAWEZI on social media and see what we are currently doing: Instagram: fawezim2 Facebook: FAWEZimbabwe Twitter: @fawezim YouTube: FAWE Zimbabwe Website: https://fawezi.org/ Blog: https://fawezi.wordpress.com/ Email: fawezim2@gmail.com Tel.: +263/ 242307793 WhatsApp: +263/ 0785541612
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Photo: social media on World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2022.
Video: “Ochi Safari Lodge” in the north of Harare close to the village Domboshawa.
Photo: FAWEZI “junior” team .
Community work: FAWEZI conducted a sensitization project called „Towards Resilient Communities with Health, Equity, and Safety for all (TORCHES) to train Community Champions from Shamva (mining district) and Chitungwiza (third biggest city in Zimbabwe) to raise awareness about gender power imbalances, and reduce Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in the communities. The training took place at „Ochi Safar Lodge“ from the 17th to the 19th of May 2022.
Photo:group picture with Community Champions from the TORCHES community work project to reduce Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
2 Who is my Zimbabwean family?
Maid Ruth
Mama Clareta
Bro Mac Donald
Mama Clareta is my
My Zimbabwean brother
The maid Ruth (we call
Zimbabwean Mama, I
Mac Donald is 15 years
her Ruthy) comes from a
call her Mama. She now
old. He goes to grade 11
rural area outside of
has four children with
(“form 3”, last year of the
Harare. She used to
me, she calls me the first
lower secondary school)
work selling clothes in
born kkk (Zimbabwean
and still has 3.5 years to
villages or was a maid.
way to laugh, Clareta
go until A-Levels. He
Ruthy once said her
literally laughs like that).
attends an expensive
family is poor. Her sister
Her two daughters Lisa
boarding school (Falcon
worked in a shop Mama
and Panashe are in
College) in Bulawayo in
once run. One of Ruthy’s
Germany. Her youngest
the south of Zimbabwe.
brothers lives in South
Mac Donald still goes to
He comes home to
Africa. In the house,
school. Mama rents out
Harare every third week
Ruthy works very hard,
some cottages in our
for the weekend. Each
she washes all the
backyard and has
time he takes sweets
clothes by hand, cleans
chicken and a vegetable
back to school worth 60-
the whole house, helps
garden. She is very
80 US Dollar. They play
to cook at night etc.
welcoming, has a strong
rubgy, soccer and
When I have time in the
character and knows
hockey at school and on
evenings I help her
what she wants.
some weekends.
cleaning up the kirchen.
Photo: unexpected wild zebras and a giraffe close to the Lion and Cheetah (Leopard) park, Zimbabwe.
Saturday trip with Mama, Mac Donald and an aunty
Photo: we could get out of the car and take pictures, the zebras came up to one meter close, the giraffe was 2-3 meters away. It was the first time I saw wild savanna animals, it was beautiful. What is better than nature?
Photo: wild “mhofiem” (m) or “chihera” (f) (male and female name of the animal in Shona).
What is your Totem? Totems are part of African cultures since immemorial times. Totems identify the different clans that historically made up the dynasties of their ancient civilisations. Today, up to 25 different totems are common among Shona and Ndebele people, the two majorities in Zimbabwe. My Zimbabwean Mama taught me I am a „Mhofiem, Mcono, Chihera, Chihelele“ (the animal in the photo and video), known to be self-confident, the totem of her. Since then, everyone at the TORCHES community training and at work call me „Chihera“ :D. Video: wild mhofiems walking in the
3 What do we eat? What do we eat?
urban poetry Photo: Baobab fruit Photo (dry by and acid), one can make porridge with Sadza or icecream with milk and suggar.
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Photo: Sadza (fine white maiz meal cooked with water and without salt) with vegetables and beef. We usually eath with our fingers.
Photo: Mama preparing her vegetables (spinach and Kofu- Zimbabwean radish) order for supply.
Photo: Kofu (Zimbabwean radish).
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© Katalin Steiner, Transnational Social Work, self-organised graduate internship with FAWEZI in Harare, Zimbabwe from the 3rd of May 2022 until the 31st of September 2022. Financed through a scholarship Erasmus+ by the International Office of Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.