Oxfam Canada's programs and partners in Zimbabwe
Culture Dialogue Series - A transformative approach to addressing gender inequality in Zimbabwe A partnership project between SAfAIDS and Seke Rural Home-based Care
The school first received a 5,000 litre tank from Oxfam Canada partner Churches in Bulawayo when the school opened. One of the buildings was outfitted with the equipment needed to harvest the heavy rains that fall during the rainy season.
With support from Health Canada's HIV/AIDS Global Engagement Grants Program, Oxfam Canada is leading on a unique project enabling women leaders from Southern Africa and Canada to identify challenges and share effective approaches.
Bongi Sibanda from the Musasa Project explains how her organization is working with Oxfam Canada to empower women through constitutional reform in Zimbabwe. The Musasa Project is working to ensure that women's rights are considered in every chapter of the Zimbabwean constitution.
Directed by Steve Guise and Paul Matthews
Camera: Benjamin Dickerson
Music by Valery Gore
Changing social norms is one of the hardest things to do. Students, community leaders and traditional healers are working together. It's making a difference! Violence against women is decreasing in these communities. So is the rate of HIV infection.
The program is run on a volunteer basis by young women and men offering services in the community like home-based care and assistance with funerals. It ensures youth are involved in reducing the risk of HIV/AIDS.
The country of Zimbabwe, in Southern Africa, is in the grip of a prolonged crisis that seems to have fallen off the international community's radar.
