The wife of Zimbabwe’s President, Auxillia Mnangagwa, has taken her programme of empowering communities through open learning to her home province of Mashonaland Central with 1 500 prospective beneficiaries, including herself and the Minister of State, registering to undertake various courses on offer by the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU).
The First Lady enrolled for a course in counseling to motivate other women.
The courses are offered free of charge through a partnership between her Angel of Hope Foundation and Zimbabwe Open University.
Mashonaland Central became the sixth province to benefit from the courses which have so far been unveiled in Harare, Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, Manicaland and the Female Open prison.
Amai Mnangagwa used the launch of the empowerment programme to also tackle issues affecting communities like domestic violence and child marriages through an interactive session during which discussants confirmed that these cases were rife in their communities.
The First Lady said empowerment of elderly people through education, is key in making communities appreciate the importance of sending children to school especially the girl child, thereby ending child marriages.
She also said that economic empowerment of women through education reduces dependence on their spouses thus curbing cases of domestic violence in homes.
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Monica Mavhunga also registered for a business management course.
Addressing the gathering drawn from all the districts in the province, the First Lady said women countrywide must take advantage of the AOH, ZOU partnership to acquire life-changing university education free of charge and improve their lives.
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