in Zimbabwe working as an Environmental Health Technician under the - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

 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

Demographic analy sis  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

 In general most of the people especially young people do not know what human rights are because its more of 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

 travelled safe  went straight to a GBV workshop at Sithembele Mathiso  8 floor building  More of advocacy and campaigns(law related )

 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 )

• 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)

 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

 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

 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