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The footprints of the First Lady’s empowerment initiatives continue to spread with a group of 22 widows under the Sanyati First Lady’s Widows Association now boasting a thriving goat and poultry project.

Health Ambassador First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday received a moving testimony of a woman who narrowly escaped death, thanks to her ultra-modern mobile hospital and the effectiveness of her nationwide breast and cervical cancer screening programmes.

First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa on Sunday held the first-ever educative Nhanga/Gota/Ixhiba Programme at the newly-constructed Heritage Village in Harare, which attracted hundreds of children, ambassadors accredited to Zimbabwe and other foreign delegates who attended the 44th Sadc summit of heads of State and Government.

Southern African First Ladies on Saturday held a high-level advocacy on environment and waste management at Geo Pomona Waste Management, as part of measures to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution affecting sustainable development in the region.

Culture and heritage patron, First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, has made an impassioned plea for Zimbabweans to visit the Heritage Village at the Museum of African Liberation to learn more about Zimbabwean culture, traditional norms and values and promote domestic tourism.

Thousands of learners from Mashonaland Central Province attended an educative Career Guidance, Grooming and Stay in School campaign in Bindura, courtesy of First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa’s efforts to ensure children remain focused on their studies to become responsible people in the future.

The First Lady, Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, has been appointed Patron of Culture and Heritage in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.

Motherly love drove First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa to visit jailed women and their children at Chikurubi Female Prison on Thursday, in a heart-warming gesture that saw some inmates shedding tears of joy.

Densely populated parts of Harare central business district (CBD) like the Copacabana terminus were left squeaky clean and with a breath of fresh air, thanks to Environment patron First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa who joined hands with Government officials, council authorities, anti-litter agencies and ordinary citizens to clean up the city as part of the National Clean-up Day, which is observed on the first Friday of every month.