16 Days of Activism | Kirsty Gugulethu Mbele - Aspiring Social Worker | YIELD Trust
Summary
Kirsty Gugulethu Mbele is a 20-year-old aspiring social worker from Makokoba, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Her community is a place traditionally perceived to be rife with gender-based violence and she seeks to create the change needed. To that end, she has been attending workshops to educate herself on issues like HIV and GBV. To learn more about her at https://yield.co.zw/16days
About The Spotlighting Womxn Community Champion Initiative
The YIELD Trust's Spotlighting Womxn Community Champions during 16 days of activism is a novel structure that seeks to capacity strengthen and activate young women to take up spaces in communities and leadership in eliminating gender-based violence.
This initiative aims to have a vast and strong network of empowered young women offline and online who are a critical mass in overcoming the epidemic of gender-based violence in Zimbabwe and the world.
About YIELD Trust
Youth-led Innovative Engagement with Leadership and Development (YIELD) Trust is a registered youth-led, youth-focused, independent, non-partisan and non-profit organization in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe). The organisation strengthens capacities and provides platforms to women and young people to advocate for their rights, influence policy and hold public officials accountable.
We are mission-driven: YIELD Trust’s mission is to start and sustain the type of conversations and initiatives that will build the youths for the future.
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