Zimbabwe Achievers Awards –Building
a New Dzimbahwe
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| Betty Makoni |
Betty Makoni(BA Gen, BA Special Hons) is CNN Hero 2009 for Protecting the Powerless and honoured by Nicole Kidman. She has 27 global awards for Innovation, commitment and passion for her work to protect over 300 000 girls in Zimbabwe. She has inspired millions around the world to replicate the Girl Child Empowerment Model. Besides her work with Girl Child Network Worldwide and building many Girl Child Networks in Africa and world over Betty Makoni is a mentor, coach, trainer for many women and girls who want to do similar work.
United Nations Red Ribbon award honoured Betty Makoni and Girl Child Network as having the most innovative strategy for gender equality. Betty Makoni is an Ashoka Fellow and singled out as one of the investors in poor and marginalised women and girls deserving of this life honour as a fellow. News of the World named her as one of the 150 women who shake the world alongside US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. An Honorary Decade Child Rights Hero award(2011) that Betty Makoni received alongside President Nelson Mandela who won the award also shows the impact Betty Makoni has made globally.
She has a lifetime of volunteerism and service to many causes and has served on Oxfam Novib and UNAIDS Round Tables. She sits on many boards of high profile organisations like RESTORED UK and serves as Ambassador and Patron of Africa Achievers Award and Zimbabwe Achievers Awards.
She is a published author of a poetry book, A woman Once a girl- Breaking Silence which was recently launched in London. Her official biography, Never Again will be launched in five countries in June 2012.
Betty is featured in best selling books to include Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gintirtuco, On The Up By Nikki and Rob Wilson as well as main subject in the award winning documentary,Tapestries of Hope by US Independent Presidential Hopeful ,Michealene Risley. Girl Child Network Empowerment Model which she started in 1998 has been singled out as Best Practice and included in University of Essex Journal for Human Rights 2010.
She is a mother of three boys and married to Engineer Irvine Nyamapfene.
When a whole community gathers to celebrate
When achievers one by name and all by achievements
Build with modern achievers stones-the new Dzimbabwe
Each inspired and with inspiration and aspiring
Appreciated, anointed and uplifted
In a Five Star Grange Hotel, Heart of great city
Top Hill where Queen peeps and pampers
With jubilee jubilations from afar in physic and so near
in heart
To citizens of one great colony who amidst odds more
achievers come
A nation of geniuses with own Guinness book of records
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards –Building New Dzimbabwe
Amongst them achievers come each in a Five star
Nominated from many and named winner of Five star
Musicians who sing for community coherence
Journalists who journey with news only truth and more
truth
DJs who Dhigong
our dances with their radios stationed in our souls
Community crusaders of noble causes for marginalised and
invisible
Personalities never taking things personally
Inspiring, inspired Zimbabwe Achievers of Five star
Hovering like eagles, proud of them like peacocks
In glamour, grandeur and greatness
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards-Building New Dzimbabwe
Celebrating achievers anchors Zimbabwe
Celebrating achievements cultured Zimbabweans
Whatever achievement
ends with Maita, Tatenda, Siyabonga
Khakulu
Life hunters with a big feast, women pour out a totem
Maita Shumba, Maita
Mhofu, Maita Nyati, Maita Simboti
Maita Shava, Maita
Nzou, Maita Dziva, Maita Soko
In totem lie the award to uplift achiever
To anchor and to uplift even to greater heights
Zimbabwe Achievers
Awards –Building a New Dzimbahwe
Ever seen female power in achievers turned male
Maita VaMaDube, VaMuzvare,
AmaMoyo
Zimbabwean woman carrying totem and male title
Tilting honour and accolades left right and centre
With Dzimbahwe
a house of granite stone
Whose big house achieved without falling
Now Zimbabwe Achievers Awards here our modern Dzimbahwe
Embracing women
who don’t fall and never failures
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards –Building a New Dzimbahwe
Zimbabwe Achievers
Awards-Building New Dzimbahwe
Taking once forgotten modern stones of building
civilisation
Seeing them who did it best with awards to do even more
Not with negativity, waste of energy never an award
Never you gather for negativity when positivity energy
brings
With Five star honour each shining so bright and so wise
Where Achievers gather, let energy rejuvenate
A community once punched with negativity
Here then pamper with positivity, achievements of
achievers
Anything you can rub off, but not an achievement of an
achiever
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards –Building a New Dzimbahwe
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