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The Pada Platform
The Pada Platform is an engagement, exploration, advocacy and training platform that offers adolescent girls and young women agency through the use of ICTs
#WCW Today we celebrate Pada Platform co-founder and Director Karen Mukwasi, Ms Kay to the girls. Karen Mukwasi is the 2025 recipient of the Weimar Human Rights Award. The Award committee recognized her for her work on women’s digital rights and inclusion, women’s digital security and her commitment to the rights of women in Africa. This is validation of our Labour of love. It is wonderful to know that someone sees us. In her speech at the Awards ceremony Karen appealed to African Leaders to prioritize citizens over power retention, to stop the war on women’s bodies and to #Silencetheguns ![]()
She appealed to feminists all over the world to speak up for African women in war torn countries such as the Congo and Sudan.
Happy New Week. This quote from Ama Ata Aidoo’s play ANOWA is giving us motivation for the week.![]()
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“The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it."
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We are proud to celebrate Bertha V Kufa Bertha V Kufa on her appointment as the HER Voice Fund Ambassador for Zimbabwe at Y+Global.![]()
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Over the years, we have witnessed this Pada Pearl grow from an enthusiastic participant into a passionate and dedicated champion for the rights of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) across various sectors. Bertha, who is also a board member of Pada Platform, continues to inspire on her journey, and this milestone is a true reflection of her commitment to advocacy.![]()
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We are proud to see her step into this role, representing Zimbabwe at both national and global levels, and we have no doubt that she will serve with excellence, integrity and purpose.![]()
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Congratulations Bertha, we celebrate you!!!! #youarenotalone
Happy International Girls in ICT Day. With this year’s theme leveraging on AI being a tool for development. We are thinking of all the amazing girls who are using technology for good! #GirlsinICT #WomenInTech #AI4Good #DigitalFuture
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At our last feminist gathering we had the pleasure of watching and listening to historian and archivist Joyce Jenje Makwenda as she presented her research on the history of Zimbabwean women leaders in politics. ![]()
The role that women have played in liberation movements across the world is often downplayed because of patriarchal systems. As we are celebrating our 46th Independence Day let us remember to learn the role women played in the fight for freedom. Also looking to the present and future generations of leaders. #ZimAt46 #IndependenceDay #46years