Two local nurse educators from Douglas College have taken their students education to a new location this past year. Frankadua, Ghana is a rural community in the Easter region, bordering Volta region. Due to delays because of COVID, this field school took 3 years of planning and designing and multiple trips for organization and relationship
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Zimbabwe Sees New Surge in Diabetes, NCDs
on September 5th, 2023
From as diverse spaces as sports stadia, music arenas to political fields, the numbers of people succumbing to chronic diseases that people are worried about: obesity, cancer, stroke, diabetes, blindness and kidney failure that have been rising in the last couple of seasons. Oliver Mtukudzi, Kelly Rusike – two of the country’s top Afro and
Epidemic of Drug Addiction: Zimbabwe Responds
on July 16th, 2023
IT is a question on the lips of most Zimbabweans – and, surely, none more so than the country’s most famous sportsperson and Zimbabwe’s top Olympian, having won seven of the country’s eight Olympic medals to date. Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward must have been very healthy and sporting fit to accomplish such feats –
End Child Marriages in Zimbabwe Babyboomers
on April 30th, 2023
A primary school girl who only turned 13 this January is eight months pregnant after being interchangeably sexually abuse and raped by her uncle in his 40s, a cousin (23) and a schoolmate (15) over several months in the country’s eastern Manicaland province. Another girl, 15-year-old Form Three student at Loreto Mission in the central
Zimbabwe Amplifying Inclusive Feminist Voice
on April 17th, 2023
Strengthening the voice of women with disabilities within the feminist movement in Zimbabwe can evidently help develop their capacity to set their own advocacy agendas from an informed perspective. Agness Chindimba, founder director of Deaf Women Included, a non-profit fighting the exclusion of deaf and hard of hearing women from important political and social processes,
Zimbabwe Disabled Ask for Greater Inclusion in Parliament
on March 22nd, 2023
Scores of people with disabilities have come out calling for better representation in Parliament, public office and political parties in addition for follow-ups and implementation of policies on disability inclusion. Meeting in the capital Harare this morning, organisations representing people with disabilities said most PWDs felt left out of active political discourse and socio-economic development.
Pests Threaten Zimbabwe’s Sugar Industry
on March 9th, 2023
Zimbabwe risks shedding some of its sugar export share due to a myriad of challenges bedeviling the industry, chief of pests in production. Although the country has adequate stocks of sugar to meet local market demand, as it is a net exporter of sugar, it is the high incidences of diseases that are posing a
Zimbabwe Fresh Fruit Exports Getting Fresher
on March 7th, 2023
There has been growing appetite for Zimbabwe fresh fruit and vegetables on theworld market, as new markets open up to the produce says ZimTrade, the country’s trade development and promotion organisation whose mandate is to Energise Zimbabwe’s Export Growthby developing viable and sustainable international trade. Horticulture is a low-hanging fruit for Zimbabwe, according to Karen Mudekunye,
In All Ways A Woman
on March 7th, 2023
Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work
The Toxic Truth Behind “Green Energy” Technologies, Cobalt, and the Exploitation of the Congo
If there’s a hell, it’s a teenage mother with a sick child strapped to her back, breaking rocks and putting them into a sack while she and her baby breathe in toxic dust. If she’s lucky, she’ll make a dollar or two and they will buy something to eat. They will both be dead in