This year in March, I had the opportunity to attend the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York. This was my first time attending CSW in person and my first time planning and implementing a parallel side event on such a platform. As a young...
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Call for Leadership Economic Mentorship Hubs 2024-2025 Cohort!
Call For Next Class of Leadership Economic Mentorship Hubs (LEMHs) Programmes 2024-2025 Deadline: 10 May 2024 Tag A Life International (TaLI), an adolescent girls and young women’s (AGYW) rights organisation is happy to announce the call for participants for our Class...
AGYW Africa Parallel Side Event Presents Petition at CSW68
The Tag a Life International and AGYW Africa Network’s inaugural ‘Advancing Young Women’s Representation in African Leadership’ parallel side event at the 68th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) in New York was a resounding success as a full house attended and...
A 2023 Election Short Story
Chitungwiza-- As I boarded a bus to work on Tuesday 22 August, elections were the talk of the town. A man old enough to be my father watched a video of the CCC campaigns that happened the previous day. Beaming with hope, he drew attention with his boisterous laugh....
Women’s Participation and Behaviour of People in this Election- A LEMHSter’s Election Experience
In my community/ward, there was just one female candidate running for councillor. To my dismay, she faced discrimination from fellow women looking down upon her as they dissed her for not being a good leader and people had already concluded that she could not lead or...
Young Women Taking Charge- A LEMHster’s Election Experience
Chitungwiza---In this August 23, harmonized election, l had a chance to exercise my constitutional right not only as a voter by also as an accredited local election observer. Through my role as an observer, l was able to have first-hand information on the electoral...
Remembering the Heroines of the Liberation Struggle
In our nation, August is known as Heroes’ Month, commemorating the men and women who laid their lives in the liberation struggle for Zimbabwean Independence. As we celebrate our decorated heroes, we want to shine a light on the heroines that contributed to the fight...
Meet Colleta Nzira
Entrepreneurship is one topic that was embraced by the majority of the participants. Amongst them, Colleta Nzira who was a mother of 2 benefited a lot from the topic including financial literacy. She set up a business for herself and is now a successful entrepreneur...
Meet Natasha Chizakula
Having most participants as young mothers, Natasha Chizakula was one of the young mothers who was in the 1st class of the LEMHs programme. Natasha joined the LEMHs programme while having only one child. However, during the course of the training she got pregnant...
Meet Farai Murambwa
Just after the YEG training, Farai Murambwa was invited to speak at an international CIVICUS conference in Paris. Unfortunately she couldn’t attend the conference in person because her visa was delayed but she virtually attended the conference and she...