Betty Makoni(BA Gen, BA Special Hons), CNN Hero 2009 for Protecting the Powerless, has endorsed Zimbabwe Achievers Awards with a special poem titled “Zimbabwe Achievers Awards, Building a New Dzimbahwe”.
The much decorated CNN hero with 27 global awards for innovation, commitment and passion for her work to protect over 300 000 girls in Zimbabwe 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.
Honoured by the United Nations Red Ribbon award and rewarded An Honorary Decade Child Rights Hero Award(2011) she received alongside President Nelson Mandela, 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. 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.
Also a published author with her volume of poetry A Woman Once a Girl- Breaking Silence which was recently launched in London, it is only fitting that Makoni extend her support for the ZAA in a poetic manner.
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards brought by headline sponsors MoneyGram and co-sponsors Econet Mobile will take place on Saturday 28 April at The Grange Tower Bridge Hotel and promises to be a night of celebration not only for the Zimbabwean community but for Africans in the UK where more than thirty Zimbabweans will be rewarded for their outstanding work in all walks of life from entertainment to fashion, from literature to business.
You can still purchase tickets on the ZAA website.
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards –Building a New Dzimbahwe
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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