Anoziva Ishe Marindire

Anoziva Ishe Marindire is a Zimbabwean gender advocate and youth ambassador, journalist, educator, brand development consultant and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Girls Speak Out an after-school programme teaching media, advocacy and code to girls living in Zimbabwe's high-density suburbs and low-income communities.She also runs Power Classes 4 Women (PC4W) a leadership and mentoring programme for aspiring female leaders. She co-founded an online magazine called Paradoka which she serves as its Chief-Editor. She is also an editor of the Young African Leaders Journal of Development (YALJOD).

Early Life

Anoziva was born in Warren Park Harare on the 6th of December 1987 to Elias and Rebecca Marindire. She did her primary education at Makundano Primary School in Mufakose, Harare from 1993-1999. She then went on to do her secondary school education at Mufakose High School (2000- 2003) and Advanced Level Studies at Herentals College in Harare from 2005 -2006. She studied for a Diploma in Journalism and Communication Studies at the Zimbabwe International College of Journalism and Business where she graduated in 2013.

Interesting Historical Event

Anoziva's grew up in the high-density suburb of Mufakose, her family fell on hard times and her primary education fees had to be paid for by the Social Welfare for 2 years. After finishing her A' Level's she opted to start working and it is while on her first job that her passion for advocacy would be ignited. In 2009, while working on a sex and behavioural change campaign in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East Province she met a 12-year-old girl in a rural farming community in Mutoko, who had gone through a miscarriage and while this shocked her and her colleagues the community treated the case as something normal. As she travelled across the rural and farming communities she was confronted with similar stories of child marriages, abuse and gender injustice. These realities pushed her to study and pursue a career in journalism and bring to light the plight girls and women and to advocate for their rights, and socioeconomic empowerment.

Journalism Career

In 2013, in her last year of her journalism school, she together with seven of her college friends decided to make use of their new media training and started an online development magazine called Paradoka, giving female Journalism students and gender activists a platform to share their stories in their own voice and bring issues important to Zimbabwean women to the African gender and development discourse on and offline.She is currently an editor of the Young African Leaders Journal of Development (YALJOD) first edition (2016) and the second edition (2018). YALJOD is a biennial journal of development established to host scholarly analysis and competing viewpoints about the development of Africa. The journal is available at the African Union Headquarters, in several universities' libraries and government parastatals across the continent.

Philanthropy

She is the founder of Girls Speak Out, an organisation whose mission is to develop the computer literacy and advocacy voice of young women between the ages of 14 – 24 living in under-served communities and help them design innovative tech solutions that spark community activism and break cycles of poverty. In 2017, Marindire also laucnhed a social-enterprise Power Classes 4 Women (PC4W) a leadership and mentoring program for aspiring female leaders.

Awards

Anoziva-Ishe's achievements and awards include:

• Women Rising Award, 2017 Hub Awards, Shoko Festival
• Young African Leadership Initiative RLC SA Alumni - 2018
• African Union Youth Division_Afcan Union Youth Day Ambassador -2014 and 2016
• The Future Awards Africa - Nominee - 2015 (Advocacy and Activism Category)
• Listed on the Infinite Inspiration Groups 40 Under 30 Emerging Zimbabwean Leaders 2015

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