Mufaro Association

22/12/2025

22/12/2025

🎉 Mufaro Association’s 15-Day Digital Health Campaign🎉
Promoting Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health & Mental Wellbeing This Festive Season

As Mufaro Association, we are excited to launch our 15-day digital campaign to raise awareness and spark meaningful conversations around adolescent and youth health during the festive season.

This time of year can be overwhelming for many young people from social pressure, curiosity, and misinformation, to emotional and mental health challenges. Through this campaign, we aim to empower both young people and their caregivers with the right information, support, and tools to make healthy and safe decisions.

🔍 Key Focus Areas Include:
1. Navigating Peer Pressure– How to say NO to risky behaviours while staying socially connected.
2. Menstrual Health & Safe Days– Helping adolescent girls understand their bodies and cycles.
3. Contraceptive Options –Including Sayana Press and emergency contraception.
4. Abistinence and Condom Use for Dual Protection–For pregnancy and STI prevention.
5. Substance Abuse Risks –Addressing festive season experimentation with drugs & alcohol.
6. Mental Health Matters –Dealing with pressure, anxiety, and expectations during the holidays.
7. Supporting Parents & Caregivers – Enhancing communication and understanding of adolescent transitions.

This campaign will run in both English and Shona, to ensure inclusivity and reach. Let’s make this festive season safe, informed, and uplifting for our young people.

01/12/2025

Today, we join the world in commemorating World AIDS Day under the theme:
"Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response."

This year’s theme reminds us of the urgent need to strengthen and adapt our HIV response in the face of ongoing social, economic, and health challenges, including gender-based violence (GBV).

As we also observe the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, it's important to recognize the intersection between GBV and HIV. Women and girls, especially in underserved communities, are more vulnerable to HIV due to violence, stigma, and unequal access to health services.

At Mufaro Association, we continue to raise awareness, empower communities, and advocate for integrated solutions that protect and uplift every woman, girl, and young person, online, offline, and in every space they exist.

Let’s unite efforts to end AIDS and gender-based violence. One world, one fight.

27/11/2025

🎙️ LIVE ON RADIO ZIMBABWE 🎙️

Today from 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM, Mufaro Association will be live on Radio Zimbabwe as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign.

We’ll be speaking on the topic:
“Addressing Digital Violence Against Adolescents and Young People”,
in collaboration with Village Advocates Network.

Join us as we raise awareness, share real stories, and explore solutions to end online abuse and harassment targeting young people, especially girls.

Let’s unite to create safer digital spaces for all!

🧡 🧡
Mil Nash I AM ZimbabweTrust Youth Advocates Against Drugs &Substance

18/11/2025

📌Day 2 of the Grant Application Training!

We’re back at it again today, diving deeper into the essentials of successful grant writing and resource mobilization. 💼✍🏾

From developing compelling project narratives to understanding donor expectations, our team is gaining practical skills to strengthen our fundraising strategies and drive greater impact in our communities.

A big thank you to our facilitator for guiding us through this capacity-building journey!