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Bulawayo second capital city and largest town in Zimbabwe working as an Environmental Health Technician under the Ministry of Health and Child Care from an organization called young peoples network which is a branch of national Aids


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 Bulawayo second capital city and largest town

in Zimbabwe

 working as an Environmental Health

Technician under the Ministry of Health and Child Care

 from an organization called young peoples

network which is a branch of national Aids Council Zimbabwe

 Work with ages from 10-24

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Demographic analysis

  • Land logged country which is 390757square kilometers
  • According to the 2012 census The population of Zimbabwe

is 12 973 808, Economic analysis

  • Agriculture and mining are the backbone of Zimbabwe's

economy

  • Unemployment rate at 95%
  • High rate of youth unemployment

Social analysis

  • 16 official languages, shona ndebele and english are the

most dominant

  • 70% are shona speaking
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 In general most of the people especially young people

do not know what human rights are because its more

  • f a closed society

 Most of the issues should be politically correct(most of

the violations and insecurities amongst Zimbabweans are caused by the political situation)

 Poor service delivery

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 travelled safe  went straight to a GBV workshop at Sithembele

Mathiso

 8 floor building  More of advocacy and campaigns(law related )

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 attended 2014 human rights training at Geo  involved in gbv workshops  human rights workshops at Sithembele Matiso,

Tsiba College, Phakama and Singamakhalipha

 Repot writing  Capacity and team building(facilitation skils,

leadership workshop, table mountain and lions head hiking, cape point drive)

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  • Human rights in broad

 Facilitation skills  Leadership skills  Young people can mobilise influential stakeholders to

be part of their activities

 Organisations can be run by young people(in zim

young people are just branches of bigger structures)

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 Language is a big obstacle in communication  Diverse cultures within africa  importance of documentation in community work

(ypn focuses more on bigger impacts in the community but with au i have learnt that even small results are important to mention)

 Ideas from colleagues

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 Try to bring at least 6 participants for the whole

period of the Africa exchange programme

 Work on mobilisation for participants  Time management  Resource mobilisation  Do more capacity building initiatives for peer

educators

 Singamakhalipha children need to be involved

more in human rights programmes

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 Conduct workshops on human rights with Young

Women First, SAYWHAT students, health workers and my community

 Run a campaign  Hold a sports gala with secondary schools  Engage all stakeholders that are relevant (community,

gvt structures an some NGOs)

 Open human rights page for young people in

Zimbabwe

 Have Young Women First programmes in south Africa

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