Why Zimbabwe Women Global Forum?

We represent  a fraction of Zimbabwean women, living in the diaspora and have been brought together by new developments in our mother land Zimbabwe.  Many of us waited for a "New Zimbabwe" to come. We are individuals and organisations uniting together to set our agenda on how to engage the current government  in  ensuring our knowledge, skills and experience we  have all acquired over the years are  shared for the development of our beloved country, Zimbabwe.

The women in the diaspora have sustained  the economy and families back home by different means and through our remittances.  A recent study  shows  (if we can quote the study, that wld really be usefull) that diaspora is the biggest donor in Africa. But our most proud achievement is the mental resilience we have all built from the very day we left Zimbabwe as we struggled to be a part of the different cultures in foreign 

lands. 

Not withstanding the stress, depression, and anxieties brought about by living away from home and for others the mental torture of leaving children behind and not being able to return to pay tributes to lost loved ones.  However as women, over the years of living in the diaspora, we  tried to build others yet ourselves broken by navigating the systems marred with supression,  discrimination, oppression and untold suffering. 

We arise now as women with mental agility to rebuild our nation Zimbabwe and therefore endevour to see the rights of every one respected.  

As we are still the  daughters of Zimbabwe, we want to be involved in every aspect of rebuilding our beloved Zimbabwe so that the mental tortures and stressors of the past are forgotten and burried in the mindfulness of  inclusivity at home and abroad.  

Despite challenges living in foreign countries as economic migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, dependants, housewives, mothers and sisters,  we managed to build an extension of our Zimbabwean culture into the global community and have supported each other through out the years. 

We therefore bring our Zimbabwean heritage into the global community and take the positive global influences from the communities from amongst which we live back into Zimbabwe. 

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