Zimbabwe

After several years as JASS Knowledge and Communications Coordinator, Annie continues to write and edit for JASS. In workshops and one-on-one, she aspires to train a new generation of JASS documenters to unleash their creativity while also caring about commas.

Martha Tholanah is a Zimbabwean feminist openly living with HIV. Martha participates in national, regional, and international advocacy, and activism revolving around the rights of people, particularly women and children, living with HIV. She is passionate about issues of women’s rights; access to HIV related treatment, disability rights, and functional health systems. A trained family therapy counselor, qualified in medical rehabilitation, Martha established and headed both the health program at Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) and the Network of Zimbabwean Positive Women (NZPW+).

Power point presentation highlighting how far JASS has come since 2010. What has JASS learned as organization? What has happened by the 3 regions? What are the goals for the future?

The JASS community is steeped in a particularly political way of learning, analyzing, and taking action. From the beginning, this approach – feminist popular education – has shaped JASS’ vision and strategies. In 2011, JASS undertook a series of activities that highlighted what this approach has meant to the work. Drawing on the thinking and experience of many pioneering popular educators within the network, JASS set out to better understand and define how feminist popular education shapes our movement-building in different contexts.