Celebrating Dr. Auxillia Mnangagwa’s works and achievements
Compiled by: Privilege Zviregei | ZimTimes Correspondent
March is Dr. Auxillia Mnangagwa’s birthday month. ZimTimes takes this opportunity to celebrate her noble works & achievements and to be honest, she has done far much better than many ever-sleeping MPs and Councillors:
🔵 She established the Mbare Life Skills Development Centre in the last quarter of 2023. This Centre now accommodates at least 300 “street-kidz” assisted with all provisions of a ‘home’ until they find decently paying jobs. The First Lady is also using the Centre to provide vocational training skills like carpentry, dressmaking, poultry and gardening. The Centre also provides rehabilitation services for juveniles in conflict with the law especially drug abusers as well as supporting and protecting sexual abuse victims.
🔵 Amai veNyika is also providing free cancer screening, medical checks and treatment across the country – using her Angel of Hope Foundation’s mobile clinic. Her noble and voluntary contributions in the health sector saw her becoming the Ambassador of Zimbabwe’s health ministry.
🔵 Dr. Auxillia Mnangagwa’s Angel of Hope Foundation has also introduced an inclusive life skills learning programme in partnership with the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). This program is mainly targeting vulnerable women and girls whose life circumstances could not permit them to further their education careers. The program has no age1 limit for the beneficiaries. Some of the courses on offer are ICT, nurse aid and palliative care, entrepreneurship and business management, counselling, agriculture, disability management and sign language. By 15 February 2023, the program had benefitted at least 29 000 people countrywide.
🔵 She also founded the First Lady’s Widows Association at the end of October 2023 to help widows sustain both themselves and their dependants. Amai Mnangagwa also engaged lawyers, professional executors and the Master of High Court to legally assist the widows if or when the needs arise. The First Lady’s Widows Association exists in all provinces of Zimbabwe.
🔵 Amai Mnangagwa has also made some fruitful efforts in mending relations with the remaining Mugabe family. Despite the fact that she almost lost her husband’s life and dignity in the G40 vs Lacoste factional fight for succeeding President Mugabe, Dr. A. Mnangagwa still went on to accommodate the former First Lady Grace Mugabe back in the fold of indirect power. The two made headlines last year at the General’s wedding when they danced in a pair like high school desk-mates in a closing day gig.
🔵 On Monday 4 February 2024, the First Lady announced that she had managed to mobilize wives of Permanent Secretaries and Ministers to join her in the campaign for Zero-Waste management. She revealed this development as she handed over recycle waste-bins to various Government departments under the shared understanding that genuine Zero-Waste management has to begin in Government offices before cascading to the ordinary person.
🔵 Amai is currently working on launching a new career guidance program dubbed, “The First Lady’s Career Guidance: Sustainability into generations.” This program is expected to target learners between 18-14 years of age before the children make uninformed academic and or career decisions in the future.
Understand the Constitution of Zimbabwe does not compel a First Lady to conduct any developmental programs. Amai Mnangagwa is doing all this out of her own good will.
Happy birthday in advance 2Mom!
- Even the elderly are benefiting from Angel of Hope Foundation – ZOU life skills learning program. A case of Hurungwe’s 74-year-old Gogo Juliet Mukakavari who graduated on 4 January 2024 with a certificate of training in Agriculture, after dropping out of school in Standard 1. ↩︎
- It’s not yet her exact birthday. She was born on 25 March 1963. March is only her birthday month. ↩︎
