Zimbabwe

Read more about Kariba's Kasambabezi FM Empowers Marginalized Communities, Transforms Lives

By Anwell Bepe, Kasambabezi FM Coordinator

Kasambabezi FM, Kariba's community radio station, is making significant strides in addressing long-standing issues affecting marginalized communities in the district. Through its "Rise & Participate" project, the station is focusing on climate change effects, gender disparity, and the documentation of Indigenous history, particularly for the Tonga and Shona people. The project aims to empower local journalists with the skills to enhance community information sharing and participation.

Kasambabezi Community Radio (Shona and Tonga)

Read more about Kasambabezi Community Radio (Shona and Tonga)

Kasambabezi Community Radio is an open-wave communication hub for all voices, informing, entertaining, developing, and inspiring an engaged community of Kariba and surrounding areas through quality programming. The main objective is to provide a shared platform for the marginalized and disenfranchised to engage in community development and interact with other people in their own language to help build a sense of community. Another key objective is to identify, nurture, and promote local talent.

Read more about Mupagamuri Center Builds Community in the Chiware Region of Zimbabwe

By Charlie Malcolm-Mckay (CS Intern)

In 2022, The Zienzele Foundation identified the need for a communal space in the Chiware region of Zimbabwe for Shona women’s cooperatives to host their organizational meetings, health clinics, and marketing of traditional handicraft work. In collaboration with Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund, they have since built a community center complex near the village of Mupagamuri to serve the five surrounding villages.