https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/stillhere daily 0.75 2021-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599743414296-7II2D5SYSKHIBCYTKJYV/Still+Here.jpg Still Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599743414296-7II2D5SYSKHIBCYTKJYV/Still+Here.jpg Still Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047039856-P1QOO6V18XZMZSJ9HR9A/1_Zesa+Negligence+Project_Nyasha+Koroka_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0001.jpg Still Here - Still Here "It was January 10, 2010. I was a few kilometres from my home in Bickleighvale Farm here in Banket. It had rained heavily the days before so the power lines had been disturbed. I just remember waking up in hospital and being told that I had been electrocuted. A few days later I was informed that my hand had been amputated." Nyasha Koroka, through her lawyer, is still seeking compensation from the power utility company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599743130193-OABKVE38HMC4XF8BSE8W/Still+Here.jpg Still Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486048987596-STE2NFUN88FT2219RLE7/Matonhodze_03.jpg Still Here - Still Here The main pole that six civilian men were assisting four ZETDC technicians to repair when they were electrocuted on January 7, 2011 at Chiwaridzo Farm in Bindura. Disaster struck when a ZETDC technician mistakenly switched power back on in that area sending 33,000kVA of electricity through their hapless bodies. All ten men were holding the electricity cable when power was restored. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047010282-R2GW779ONNYVZML9XTRZ/1_Zesa+Negligence+Project_Kudakwashe+Pfunde_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0001.jpg Still Here - Still Here Kudakwashe Pfunde was severely burnt in the accident at Chiwaridzo Farm in Bindura and had to have some of his skin harvested from his left thigh to graft to his left armpit. As a result he can not lift his left hand all the way above his head. Before the accident he was working as a builder but now does minimal work. In 2014, a judge awarded him US$13,000 as compensation for his injuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047024364-NF3Y7OS6HBX3WCO5PBV2/1_Zesa+Negligence+Project_Munashe+Magwaza_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0001.jpg Still Here - Still Here "A lot of people died in my ward when I was in hospital. Most of them had minor injuries compared to mine so I kept wondering if I was going to come out alive. I was grateful to be alive. Eventually I accepted that my life had changed and that I would no longer be able to walk, work or take care of my family like I used to. " After an almost 9 year battle seeking compensation from the responsible power utility company a judge, in December 2015 awarded Munashe Magwaza US$25,000 for his injuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599741823605-GWE7PYXWMYVJKFWSSBBV/CRM_9995.jpg Still Here - Still Here Clayton Ndlovu (17), was electrocuted on November 17, 2016 when he came into contact with a live power-line which had been struck by lightening and had been lying idle for a while near his home in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047124827-4RMB0UQDJBNI5JO67X4V/1_Zesa+Negligence+Project_Constance+Sinachinge_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0001.jpg Still Here - Still Here “I have been surviving like a piece of paper floating around wherever the wind blows. As humans we suffer but not the way I have been suffering since my son died. I cry everyday when I think about him. I wonder where he would have been now when I see other boys his age.” Constance Sinachinga's son Takudzwa (10), died when he fell into a pit of unprotected live power cables in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047045198-IQEXH5BPQRAW8TKNCC3D/1_Zesa+Negligence+Project_Prince+Chinembiri_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0001.jpg Still Here - Still Here Prince Chinembiri is one of the six civilian men who were electrocuted at Chawaridza Farm in Bindura on January 7, 2011. He suffered deep electrical burns of the left forearm which resulted in amputation of his left forearm. In 2014 a judge granted him US$14,000 compensation for his injuries. He had sued the power utility for US$105,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599741784331-T2FDOZ7IMN9KYV7MPIHC/CRM_9915_EDITED.jpg Still Here - Still Here Lovemore Ndlovu sits in his room at his home in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. He was electrocuted on his way to visit his neighbour Clayton Ndlovu who had been electrocuted on his way home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599742815984-KGLO59QBTGS5FCT475EJ/Still+Here.jpg Still Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047049179-7PBHU2FVEL5KA5HJLYV1/Zesa+Project_Portraits_+Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0012.jpg Still Here - Still Here "It took me a long time to accept what had happened and that I will never have my hands back. My youngest children didn't recognise me and would say this is not our father but I just came to a point where I told myself that God knows why I am still here." In 2014 a judge granted Paradzayi Mupandenyama US$26,220 compensation for his injuries. He had sued the power utility for US$1 630 000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047052608-0XB7X239SULESGHOS0J4/Zesa+Project_Portraits_+Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0006.jpg Still Here - Still Here Alexio Tembo is one of the six civilian men who were electrocuted at Chawaridza Farm in Bindura on January 7, 2011. He lost his right index finger, sustained 75% permanent body injury and suffers from weather pain. Plagued by the constant feeling of helplessness, as his wife left him after the incident and he could no longer take care of his four children, he attempted suicide three times. In 2014 a judge granted him US$15,000 compensation for his injuries. He had sued the power utility for US$120,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047005318-07R2TN3CT3XYDTQRQ0D8/1_Zesa+Negligence+Project_Constance+Sinachinge_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_0001.jpg Still Here https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/portraits daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1765389617235-R6JKZD3ASRKV29N5B52L/Dr+Kudzai+Kanyepi_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_001+%28a%29+copy.jpg Portraits Dr Kudzai Kanyepi, the first and only Zimbabwean female cardiothoracic surgeon, at work at the trauma centre in Harare, Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1765389617235-R6JKZD3ASRKV29N5B52L/Dr+Kudzai+Kanyepi_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_001+%28a%29+copy.jpg Portraits Dr Kudzai Kanyepi, the first and only Zimbabwean female cardiothoracic surgeon, at work at the trauma centre in Harare, Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1765389208187-AU1VWMWY9XSK6AGJJ89Y/Angeline+Murimirwa_Profile_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_04+copy.jpg Portraits A portrait of Angeline Murimirwa, the chief executive officer of Camfed in Africa. She was included in the 2017 BBC 100 Women list of most influential women. - For Yidan Prize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1756995194392-GD5N3HECOMCMFJDWMBG8/Zimbabwe_September+2019_250.jpg Portraits Mr. Mutihoto is a herbalist in Mutasa District in Zimbabwe. Mutihoto is involved in health activism and community advocacy for better water and sanitation services. - For PAI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1605538293572-W71UWJOZ9I56ZQQCQ5A2/image-asset.jpeg Portraits A portrait of Tsitsi Dangarembga at her home in Harare, Zimbabwe. Tsitsi has been shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. - For New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755978223190-BREDLXDMX8WHO516TMM7/UNDP+Mozambique_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_11.jpg Portraits Maputo, Mozambique. Alima (42) is a social activist and runs a podcast called Para Elas, or ‘For the Women’, where women share their stories to help inspire others. She is partnering with UNDP on a public information campaign ahead of the upcoming elections, to help young women recognise the power of their vote, having grown up witnessing young girls being forced into early marriages. - For UNDP Mozambique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755978197393-T68PW9SROJKNIDNMB0RJ/UNDP+Mozambique_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_18.jpg Portraits Maputo, Mozambique. Kelly (21) works as an administrative assistant and will vote for the first time in October. “If I didn't vote I would be neglecting my responsibility, because everyone complains when elections don't go their way. We, as young people, have the power to change our country. By voting, we can play an important role in shaping the future of Mozambique. We may not see immediate results, but the positive effects will be seen in the near future - not just for us, but for generations to come. Today it's me voting, tomorrow it could be my younger sister, and then the next generation after that. - For UNDP Mozambique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1747223745506-UWUL5TKENRTEO7SE55ZX/Tafadzwa+Tega_Portrait_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20250513_01.jpg Portraits A portrait of Zimbabwe-born artist Tafadzwa Tega at his studio in Woodstock, Cape Town, May 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1738335308990-OL98UR0VF95WM3735JCZ/Climate%2BElders_Zimbabwe_Cynthia%2BR%2BMatonhodze_02%2Bcopy.jpg Portraits A portrait of Elijah Chijokwe (78) in his field near his home in Wenimbe in Marondera, Zimbabwe. A shift in rain seasons and a decrease in rainfall has resulted in a reduced harvest for Elijah and his family causing food insecurity. "A lot of what I planted last season dried out before I could harvest it due to unpredictable rain patterns. I think it is important for communities to be capacitated to build dams in their areas to alleviate the negative effects of scarce rain." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1693394873475-67H2EH7OW2NCN2R7NOGX/Takudzwa+Mutezo_University+of+Groningen_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_01.jpg Portraits A portrait of Takudzwa Mutezo on her farm, Happi Meadows in Nyamazi, Nyanga. Mutezo lives in rural Zimbabwe where she is working as an independent environmental lawyer and wildlife protection advocate, in addition to running an organic farm. She is the youngest board member at Nyanga National Park. - For The University of Groningen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1738335329662-86LGSKP7ZAJJUOT1S5BA/Cynthia%2BR%2BMatonhodze_The%2BGuardian_01.jpg Portraits A portrait of Zimbabwean publisher, editor, researcher and writer, Irene Staunton in her garden at Weaver Press in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is co-founder the publishing house with her husband Murray McCartney. - For The Guardian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1738335346505-HMH2H9VL42NDR7NYO9PW/image-asset.jpg Portraits Dr Tapiwa Mungofa, a general practitioner at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital who is also the treasurer general of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, stands for a portrait in Harare. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Zimbabwe’s health ministry extended the directive, with health workers working two to three days a week to minimise their exposure to the virus. - For The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1738335363202-SNIO41CE9VV74CFUN8GM/Cynthia%2BR%2BMatonhodze_The%2BGuardian_05.jpg Portraits The founders of Weaver Press, Irene Staunton and Murray McCartney, at their home in Harare. - For The Guardian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591276059840-YAMNS754H62NS4G7QE86/Traditional+Birth+Attendant_The+Guardian+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_01.jpg Portraits 72-year-old Esther Zinyoro is a traditional birth attendant who believes she is God’s work by helping expecting mothers who are turned away from modern health facilities owing to a strike by medical practitioners in Zimbabwe. - The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1738335389863-OAB51XY2BF5GG40N9F2A/Forex%2BTrading_Cynthia%2BMatonhodze_RoW_02.jpg Portraits A portrait of Wellington Mafuta, a Zimbabwean online forex trader. - For Rest of World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1741985300338-ISE4WU5HHHXFU9C7RIAS/ALMA_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_01.jpg Portraits For ALMA Reviews blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1611330867058-46ACW1OMXX3D4R3WSOHE/Taekwondo_The+Guardian_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_01.jpg Portraits Natsiraishe Maritsa sits in her room for a portrait at her family home in Epworth, Zimbabwe. Natsiraishe uses taekwondo sessions to teach and empower young girls and teen mothers in her community to prevent early child marriages. About 34 percent of girls in Zimbabwe are married before they turn 18 while 5 percent are married before they turn 15. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706722331-IE03O9JBISD7ZJ3IBRME/Singing+to+the+Lions_CAFOD_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_086.jpg Portraits A portrait of Farisai* (not is real name) a participant of the Singing to the Lions workshop at Chimoio Primary School in Muzarabani, Zimbabwe. - For CAFOD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1738338518380-ZP3C4R5USXDP10JD047I/Zaza%2BMuchemwa_Germany%2B2024_Cynthia%2BR%2BMatonhodze_01.jpg Portraits A portrait of Zimbabwean playwright, poet and arts administrator, Zaza Muchemwa. Germany, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706706535-TV77ZVK5DMS2X8487HVG/Science+Magazine_Maputo_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_44.jpg Portraits A portrait of Dr Pedro Aide, a researcher at Manhiça Health Research Centre in Maputo, Mozambique, where he coordinates scientific activities related to malaria elimination in Southern Mozambique. - For Science Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1605539615677-L91AFOFCYLJRJMUNVHB3/image-asset.jpeg Portraits For ALMA Reviews blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706740470-J0TM6CLTUC345OWE9K62/WaterAid_Zambia_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_075.jpg Portraits A portrait of Elizabeth at Sikachapa in Kazungula District, Zambia May 2022. - For WaterAid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1605539799867-ZCPOWEDQGEEGBAT7SPZZ/Tsitsi+Dangarembga_06.jpg Portraits A portrait of Tsitsi Dangarembga at her home in Harare, Zimbabwe. Tsitsi has been shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. - For The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591288927031-ZC7YQOUGUTJ9PZ3DBGMI/IMG_1563.jpg Portraits A portrait of Sifiso at her home in Matobo, in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South province where she lives with her husband and 6 of her 7 children. She has been farming since 1973 supporting her family. - For Oxfam GB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1575385967690-F28P0MC5ZLLQ42II4IS8/UNDP-Angola-2019_Adolescent_empowerment_15.jpg Portraits Talatona, Luanda, Angola. Hwary Ramos (19) poses for a portrait at home in Talatona, in Angola’s capital city Luanda. Hwary’s mother, Sónia, has been living with HIV for about 10 years now. - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599744992396-ANFP7GGWSM7R4Y91V9CI/ZAFP+Members_Kresiah+Mukwazhi_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze+2018_01.jpg Portraits Zimbabwean mixed-media artist Kresiah Mukwazhi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1575385972260-IK1H2XIPXPZ6PS4CP8H4/UNDP-Angola-2019_Portrait_empowerment_16.jpg Portraits Luanda, Angola. Cândida Sónia Neves Ferreira (40) is part of the support group, Fight for Life Association, for women living with HIV. “My attitude after getting more information about HIV was to say that from me no one else will receive the virus. Then later I started taking care of myself more, taking the medicines, taking care of my diet.” - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1571395492362-3QF63K8CJ2F2BAPBS3GO/Petina+Gappah_13.jpg Portraits Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah at Harare City Library. - For The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546690172569-2ZO9NBE7QQEGXHYQKAQO/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_02.jpg Portraits Roselyn Ngona, a farm worker at a horticulture farm, looks in the mirror while preparing herself to go out after work at the farm. - For HIVOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591290403699-PP9B6BVDFOI7V27KNHQS/Mental+Health+in+Zambia_The+Guardian+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_04.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1516612841579-LQLQ772BW8QIEDJSLFDY/AMB+Harry+K+Thomas_Foreign+Policy_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_1.jpg Portraits A portrait of US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Harry K Thomas Jr. - For Foreign Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1492673916688-IP40B02YIUFOOBXKELBW/Friendship+Bench+Project_Highfield+Harare_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_The+Guardian_20170408_02.jpg Portraits Dr Dixon Chibanda, a senior psychiatrist and the principal investigator of the Friendship Bench Project, 2017. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591266904640-UAB6W1TTD4TIHQOI9H2Y/Traditional+Birth+Attendant_The+Guardian+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_01.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599744991192-A8XZVNRFOMDSLRLLR2HE/ZAFP+Members_Zandile+Ndlovu_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze+2018_01.jpg Portraits Zimbabwean broadcast journalist Zandile “Zazalicious” Ndlovu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1521023412218-4EYQ4V0WG06OKO8LKN8J/Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_Lendwithcare_Processed_01.jpg Portraits Lucia Mudima (51), a widow with 4 children, at her marital home in the Mandeya area of Honde Valley in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Lucia buys unripe bananas, avocados and sugarcane from small holder farmers in her community which she then ripens in boxes and sells in Mbare, Harare at her market stall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1516612875029-MIXO3UQ1X8PGTHBFQGL0/Everyday+Life+in+Zimbabwe+Portraits_DW_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_1.jpg Portraits ”Things haven't changed much since Mugabe left, it's just that people are now free to move around and express themselves and that's it. Economy wise, things are still expensive and cash is still a problem but we will wait and see." - Beauty Johannes (61), stays at home and depends on her children to take care of her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1516612845740-NHI1UUQ5GVZS3IW5PFUB/Everyday+Life+in+Zimbabwe+Portraits_DW_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_2.jpg Portraits ”I wanted to be a soldier growing up but I failed I to proceed with my schooling because my mother just couldn't afford it anymore as she was a vendor. So when she died I made a plan, taught myself how to cut hair then got my own shop. I now put my little sister through school and that's all that matters to me."- Tinashe Nyarambi (19) is a self-taught barber cutting hair out of his make-shift barbershop in Mbare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047300991-VUPHCTGA7QO44UUO3095/Katarina_Film+Critic_Bamako_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_Website.jpg Portraits Katarina Hedrén, a film programmer and freelance writer, dances in the rain at the Bamako Encounters in Mali, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047332185-6R1O1820G0A699DWUYI2/Zimbabwean+Writer_Lebohang+Mojapelo_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_Website.jpg Portraits Zimbabwean writer and feminist Lebohang Mojapelo, 2013. https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/ngowork daily 0.75 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1756995186532-OXNAPL5R1NSK6UB7YKDP/Zimbabwe_September+2019_24.jpg NGO Work Women wait to access health services at Sakupwanya Clinic in Mutasa District, in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland Province during a nationwide campaign to vaccinate children against measles and rubella. - For PAI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1756995186532-OXNAPL5R1NSK6UB7YKDP/Zimbabwe_September+2019_24.jpg NGO Work Women wait to access health services at Sakupwanya Clinic in Mutasa District, in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland Province during a nationwide campaign to vaccinate children against measles and rubella. - For PAI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1756995175877-GZNT13BDTW4QCV4ZNJLT/Zimbabwe_September+2019_241.jpg NGO Work HCC members share a light moment during a meeting at the estate in Mutasa District, Zimbabwe. The formation of the HCC came through the programme strengthening health literacy in farm worker communities supported by FOS through Community Working Group on Health after it was noticed that these communities have been left behind in terms of national health programmes and general development. - For PAI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1644608929100-43ITNZF0493E22F0C8VL/IMF+COVID_Cynthia+R+Matonhdze_63.jpg NGO Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755978870189-CQSFL82AWG7JWOJ06GS5/Sight+Savers_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20241022_346.jpg NGO Work Brothers Chabota (6) and Forgive (14) share a moment with their cousins Bubota (girl) at their home in Chininga, Binga, Zimbabwe. Chabota, Forgive and Bubota were treated for active trachoma. - For Sightsavers UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755978866944-PU7PAWIWAFN1TMNVRMF8/UNDP+Mozambique_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_34.jpg NGO Work Maputo, Mozambique. Africa has the largest and fastest growing youth population in the world. This year, many of them will vote for the first time in what has been dubbed the ‘year of super elections’ as 72 countries across the world hold elections –17 of which are scheduled to take place in Africa. This includes Mozambique, where voters will head to the polls on 9 October 2024 for the country’s general elections. - For UNDP Mozambique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706602040-M4DXDGXRLQATH2UJG68X/Peek+Vision_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_36.jpg NGO Work Clophas Mapfumo (65) goes through an eye refraction conducted by Sister Nevanji, a refractionist for Council for the Blind based in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe. - For Peek Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706707133-BJ31YN21TS9MYGFAM809/UNDP_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_39.jpg NGO Work “When I started taking my PrEP, I had an incident in 2020. The incident resulted in me being raped on my way home when I was coming from work, in the evening, by an unknown person. I saw the goodness of PrEP when I gave birth. I birthed my baby who doesn’t have the disease of HIV and AIDS and I myself did not contract the disease of HIV and AIDS. Since then, I am healthy and happy; and my baby is healthy and we are both happy.” - Nashly, sex worker. - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706739229-ROCKWG5GE4DZXPAL0ZOU/WaterAid_Zambia_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_020.jpg NGO Work Sipiwe and Chipego do dishes at the mother’s shelter in Sikachapa in Kazungula District, Zambia May 2022. - For WaterAid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706750189-DJPR0O29HYVYTXZZZR1U/WaterAid_Zambia_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_057.jpg NGO Work Elizabeth and Constance share a moment at the arrival of Constance’s new born baby at the clinic in Sikachapa in Kazungula District, Zambia May 2022. - For WaterAid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706766987-P2RRG6S1I96A6TI7U3L8/WaterAid_Zambia_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_087.jpg NGO Work Sipiwe plates Dorika’s hair at the mother’s shelter at Sikachapa in Kazungula District, Zambia May 2022. - For WaterAid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706689893-WFZGI0Z6261DU8UKWIEM/TBLON_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_186.jpg NGO Work Community health volunteers check Jean’s weight at her home in Kilimanjaro, Zambia. Besides TB treatment and surveillance community health volunteers often conduct general health checks including HIV testing and BP checks when they visit patients at home. - For USAID https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706615794-KJUR7B2AG11ORSIOG7S0/Singing+to+the+Lions_CAFOD_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_017.jpg NGO Work Students around the Chimoyo community in Muzarabani fill out an assessment form before commencing the first day of the Singing to the Lions workshop at Chimoio Primary School, Zimbabwe. Singing to the Lions sessions are done with children to overcoming fear and violence in their lives. This guide is for children and youth aged eight years and older who have experienced or witnessed violence in their family, school or community. - For CAFOD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706629553-4OC0UEKF03AMSKSX1BB2/Singing+to+the+Lions_CAFOD_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_044.jpg NGO Work A volunteer counselor conducts a session during the Singing to the Lions workshop with students from around Chimoyo community in Muzarabani, Zimbabwe. Singing to the Lions sessions are done with children to overcoming fear and violence in their lives. Many of the participants who will take part in this workshop have experienced multiple traumas – the death of parents; military conflict; domestic violence; sexual, emotional and physical abuse; and child labor. - For CAFOD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591276616034-CAF3LKIOQ4J9EAFCWQZK/IMG_2013.jpg NGO Work Abigail cleans up her son Junior, before heading out to draw water from a borehole near her home in Hatcliffe, Harare, Zimbabwe. - Oxfam GB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1644609244569-63VZN8IUNXM9HLIFYWQG/IMF+COVID_Cynthia+R+Matonhdze_63.jpg NGO Work October 28, 2021: Bitumen World workers rehabilitate Seke Road in Harare, Zimbabwe. - For IMF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1644609244564-KKBOPGJ4T3WYKI7W3CVN/IMF+COVID_Cynthia+R+Matonhdze_18.jpg NGO Work September 23, 2021: People go about their business in Mbare Musika, Harare. - For IMF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1620307826253-IO6BEJS8FIWZLO01RJ63/ActionAid+Zimbabwe_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_01.jpg NGO Work Chitenderano, Nyazura, Zimbabwe - December 20, 2019: Food assistance packs ready for distribution at Chitenderano distribution point in Nyazura, in Makoni District. Zimbabwe is currently facing a severe drought caused by poor rainfall that affected harvests in 2019. The lean season assistance programme will see 49 000 food insecure people being assisted in the district. - For ActionA!d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1620307824407-Q9SPSUZUOPCZPHTB0GTJ/ActionAid+Zimbabwe_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_40.jpg NGO Work Chitenderano, Nyazura, Zimbabwe - December 21, 2019: Community members gather to share food assistance packs amongst themselves at Chitenderano distribution point in Nyazura, in Makoni District. Zimbabwe is currently facing a severe drought caused by poor rainfall that affected harvests in 2019. The lean season assistance programme will see 49 000 food insecure people being assisted in the district. - For ActionA!d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1620307838958-211Z37XYG4J07000BLG2/ActionAid+Zimbabwe_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_64.jpg NGO Work Chitenderano, Nyazura, Zimbabwe - December 21, 2019: Women walk home after receiving food assistance packs at Chitenderano distribution point in Nyazura, in Makoni District. Zimbabwe is currently facing a severe drought caused by poor rainfall that affected harvests in 2019. The lean season assistance programme will see 49 000 food insecure people being assisted in the district. - For ActionA!d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1620307892663-BQX06SE22DM9GTG97OSX/ActionAid+Zimbabwe_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_66.jpg NGO Work Chitenderano, Nyazura, Zimbabwe - December 21, 2019: Men redirect an ox-drawn cart with food assistance packs as women make their way home after receiving food at Chitenderano distribution point in Nyazura, in Makoni District. Zimbabwe is currently facing a severe drought caused by poor rainfall that affected harvests in 2019. The lean season assistance programme will see 49 000 food insecure people being assisted in the district. - For ActionA!d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591276645754-9MBF1B74WNKHPFVUYDZL/IMG_0764.jpg NGO Work A solar-powered Oxfam water point in Hatcliffe, Harare, Zimbabwe. - Oxfam GB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591289115965-7U27OXERN0LQZPZIQ6X4/IMG_1589.jpg NGO Work Sifiso in her field in Matobo, in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South province where she lives with her husband and 6 of her 7 children. She has been farming since 1973 supporting her family. - For Oxfam GB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1575385184540-3GWYVQLTWGD0XJAXVHPB/UNDP-Angola-2019_Portrait_empowerment_17.jpg NGO Work Luanda, Angola. Sónia Ferreira, 40, has been living with HIV for 10 years, but for a long time did not tell anyone. Her daughter, Hwary, 19, has tested negative. Hwary said: ‘I was 14 when I took the test. I was scared but couldn’t show it to my mom. I realised she was terrified and afraid of having infected me. She felt very guilty. I tried to be very optimistic, saying it was nothing, the test was going to be negative. I knew it would go well’ - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1575385148216-CR3VCXSH5XFR99LHY7LP/UNDP-Angola-2019_Adolescent+girls_empowerment_38.jpg NGO Work Cunene, Angola. Teenage girls read a book during a break from a session on reproductive health. The Bancadas femininas say they have now reached more than 33,000 girls and young women, supported by the UN Development Programme, Ajuda de Desenvolvimento de Povo para Povo Angola and the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1575385239242-RMYOG6H2AGLWB8WIIO0N/UNDP-Angola-2019_Women_Inequality_01.jpg NGO Work Luanda, Angola. Angola is one of the few countries in Africa where new HIV infections and Aids-related deaths have risen over the past decade. Women account for 66% of the adults living with HIV in Angola, yet they are less likely to be on treatment than men. Girls aged 15-19 are three times as likely to become infected with HIV than boys the same age. - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1571394391855-UDC7XIEM16OMG3O2V7GG/CAMFED_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_02.jpg NGO Work Lucia Punungwe, a teacher mentor and math teacher at Kwenda High School gives out school supplies to less privileged local primary-school going pupils. Lucia heads the student council at Kwenda High School. - For CAMFED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688911232-GSOEC1DY8CDRIS0JRQ01/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_09.jpg NGO Work Rekina walks to a man-made dam near her home to fetch water for washing her dishes and clothes. The area is rife with informal brick makers, that have created mini-dams in the process of digging sand to make bricks. Because the water is not protected, she accesses water for drinking and cooking at a borehole near her home. - For HIVOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688928155-9QOTRUQGOUYHJ9W3S9C0/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_25.jpg NGO Work Rekina arranges harvested Aster Dark Milka flowers in buckets awaiting transportation to the grading shed where they are graded according to height and packed for shipment. - For HIVOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688934723-56P6IGWUJBOFR27B11E1/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_26.jpg NGO Work “Since I started working at the farm, I have never received protective gloves to use when harvesting flowers. We use our bear hands and over time the flowers cut through the skin and leave dye on our hands.” - For HIVOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688396672-RVPYFPMRX7F3SF816ZMX/MSF_Diagnostics+Toolkit_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_17.jpg NGO Work City of Harare staff work on fixing a delapidated borehole in Glen View high density suburb in Harare. Boreholes are the main source of drinking water in the outbreak prone area. - For Médecins Sans Frontières https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688431060-3SE7GCA8RLLVJJKYSYFO/MSF_Diagnostics+Toolkit_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_24.jpg NGO Work MSF team members offload pipes to start the process of diagnosing the health of a borehole. Boreholes are the main source of drinking water in the outbreak prone area. - For Médecins Sans Frontières https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688447301-I1C5UR4CCVYAV8OS9WCD/MSF_Diagnostics+Toolkit_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_90.jpg NGO Work Children access safe, clean water from a community borehole in Budiriro. - For Médecins Sans Frontières https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1571393847734-4K7A8OI7ICUFMNWPGVPA/Marie+Stopes+Star+Zimbabwe_MSI_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_28.jpg NGO Work Richard Bayisai (R), chats to a potential client at a market during a community outreach exercise in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. - Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688046629-0VQ7SA4XAF3RAJQJB1EY/Crown+Agents_Jari+Clinic_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze+2018_23.jpg NGO Work Nurse Mhepo draws blood from a from a pregnant client at Jari Clinic in Chirau, in Zvimba district. - For Crown Agents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688062605-OVSTORG64EBHEGOE1RQQ/Crown+Agents_Jari+Clinic_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze+2018_34.jpg NGO Work Nurse Mhepo takes stock of the drug stocks at Jari Health Clinic in Chirau in Zvimba district. - For Crown Agents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688084866-S4H1CWJ7P2CUBSVK44RP/Marie+Stopes+Zambia_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_2018_085.jpg NGO Work Esther Mwale, a teen connector at Marie Stopes Zambia’s Divine Diva Centre, celebrates with her hockey teammates. - For Marie Stopes International UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546685855628-RP67O1A7S8HN8Z40IYOQ/Zimbabwe_May_2018_Prison+Project_CRM_112.jpg NGO Work Patmos Masocha, (41) runs a garage in Mashawa with his friend and business partner Witness, who he met when both were in VSO-supported vocational training while serving sentences in Mutimurefu Prison. Here Patmos helps a young intern at his garage to repair a car. - VSO International UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546685439564-AY2Q5UGQQ5E3T7BBYMOS/CM_070618_29.jpg NGO Work CeSHHAR outreach worker Tanyaradzwa Gwanzura. According to Tanyaradzwa, the Sisters with A Voice Clinic in Mbare attracts up to 300 new clients a month. - Gates Foundation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546685443895-57ZLUHRXP1V67FMGOCX8/CM_070618_05.jpg NGO Work Belinda Chikerema, an intern at the Sisters with a Voice Clinic in Mbare, demonstrates how to use a female condom to clients at the clinic on July 6, 2018. The clinic provides primary health care, contraception, management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and HIV testing and referral for antiretrovial therapy (ART) to sex workers in Harare. - Gates Foundation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1512203872134-FL3HLFME7K06ZTPHJW3O/UNDP_ZW_HIV_01.jpg NGO Work The sun rises over Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1512203909742-VJM4DH2M1N7PFYYK2PPU/UNDP_ZW_HIV_02.jpg NGO Work Sarah Zhanet (49) sits for a portrait in her room in Old Mabvuku, in Harare, Zimbabwe. Sarah has been on ART since 2001 and credits her late brother, Peter Joaneti (portrait next to Jesus) for helping her accept her status and seek treatment. - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546688917332-0CSSTI3EAFYTZ1CKIXFM/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_02.jpg NGO Work October 8, 2018: Rekina Chivhange (42) is a widow and farm worker working at a horticulture farm in Mount Hampden, Zimbabwe. Rekina has worked as a general hand for 5 years at the farm. - For HIVOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1512204067953-YXTAJBZXVHF0MDSSFFOV/UNDP_ZW_HIV_13.jpg NGO Work Lloyd Whinya (18) poses for a portrait at an adolescent support centre at Wilkins Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe. Lloyd is a Community Adolescent Treatment Supporter who helps HIV positive teens make it to their review appointments, offer counselling services and co-ordinates support group meetings. - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1512204044596-1K6HMP6DVYKU1UZFX1PT/UNDP_ZW_HIV_15.jpg NGO Work Melisa Little (30) is a commercial sex worker who has been on ART since she found out about her status in 2015. “With clients who want to have unprotected sex, I tell them that I am on ART and that if they have a family, I don’t want to endanger them.” - For UNDP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1505744663349-GVZBZYMHFKBHMSFYPB5V/Chicken+Project+Gokwe_All+We+Can_CynthiaR+Matonhodze_41.jpg NGO Work Mr Bandawa, a member of Sungano group, chops firewood in preparation of lighting a fire to keep the group's chickens warm overnight in Gokwe South. Sungano group is a 9 member group of people from Bandawa community in Gokwe South who run a chicken project, with support from MeDRa and All We Can, to enable them to earn a living for their families. - For All We Can https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1505744689774-HNHRD12ON21FXJY8HQEC/Chicken+Project+Gokwe_All+We+Can_CynthiaR+Matonhodze_42.jpg NGO Work Mr Bandawa and Regai, who are members of Sungano group, work together to take care of the group's chickens in Gokwe South. - For All We Can https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1505744745438-QGM2TPJ5RA0PK5ITTRBC/Chicken+Project+Gokwe_All+We+Can_CynthiaR+Matonhodze_43.jpg NGO Work Regai, a member of Sungano group, cleans the group's chicken coop. - For All We Can https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1505744915694-BIANXZKJCXTM5F7SK8AE/Chicken+Project+Gokwe_All+We+Can_CynthiaR+Matonhodze_118.jpg NGO Work Sungano group members Regai (yellow vest) and Thulani (red t-shirt) chat at a chicken market in Gokwe South, Zimbabwe. - For All We Can https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1505743958674-JISTJ3ZOJNYLVIW9PEFM/MSI_Marie+Stopes+Stars_Eugenia+Five_PS+Zimbabwe_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20170821_01.jpg NGO Work Eugenia Five, a call centre coordinator with Population Services Zimbabwe in her office in Belvedere, Harare. - For Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1505743955381-GA18APFJZDVQAZXT1O3U/MSI_Marie+Stopes+Stars_Eugenia+Five_PS+Zimbabwe_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20170821_03.jpg NGO Work Eugenia Five, affectionately known as DJ Loop by her listeners, speaks during one of her weekly radio show programs on SRHR issues at Star FM Zimbabwe. Every week DJ Loop can be heard across the country on Star FM and Radio Zimbabwe giving vital information on family planning. - For Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1505744019982-YCSCLVCW7DRENHDE9R4J/MSI_Marie+Stopes+Stars_Eugenia+Five_PS+Zimbabwe_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20170821_15.jpg NGO Work Eugenia Five (R), a call centre coordinator with Population Services Zimbabwe, talks to women during a door-to-door community mobilisation exercise in Caledonia outside Harare, Zimbabwe. - For Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1493057951607-OQRU0A91BVLHSX7ICCH6/MSI_PS+Zimbabwe_Epworth+Outreach_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20170109_010.jpg NGO Work "As I look at the work we are doing as Marie Stopes in the communities, the numbers of women that access our services and we look at the number of maternal morbidity which is decreasing, I believe the hand of Marie Stopes is there because we reaching underserved communities." (Mirriam Simbanegavi) - For Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1493057956769-C7LORMHV2Y8K2F7Z2G2M/MSI_PS+Zimbabwe_Epworth+Outreach_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20170109_021.jpg NGO Work Women socialise while waiting to access family planning services at a Marie Stopes International outreach centre at the peri-urban suburb of Epworth in Harare, Zimbabwe. - For Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047839694-7WOV1MWM8VQP5IXWVK3H/MSI_PS+Zimbabwe_Kagande+Outreach_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20170111_003.jpg NGO Work Outreach team leader for Mashonaland East, Lovemore Manyemwe, explains how the loop method of contraception works during a group counseling session at Charehwa Clinic in Kagande, Mutoko, Zimbabwe. - For Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1494338557959-XDOD0WIX9QJJIJL0XEUO/MSI_PS+Zimbabwe_Mushimbo+Outreach_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20170110_033.jpg NGO Work January 10, 2017: MSI Mashonaland East nurse provider Eve Chirengwa (R) speaks to clients during a group counseling session at Mushimbo Clinic in Mutoko, Zimbabwe. - For Marie Stopes International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486370898347-CD8EA7KXI7SA15SPR01X/23_Lionel_Peer+Educator+Visit_Mufakose_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20150805_0002.jpg NGO Work August 5, 2015: A man on TB treatment shows the medication he used take during a peer educator visit at his home in Mufakosi. - For International Aids Alliance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1500808501420-W2P0NRJRNUO50RDYBV58/Cash+Transfer+Project_Masvingo+Province_Care+International+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20.jpg NGO Work Lizzy Hofisi tends to her home garden in Zaka District, Ward 4, Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Lizzy and her husband, Robert Hofisi, are beneficiaries of the CARE cash transfer project which has helped them take their 3 children to school. - For CARE International UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486371548557-ZKPCT5VF7U3KFM1D825R/Take+Back+the+Night+Part+1_Tipperary+Night+Club_Red+Light+District_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20151127_0001+copy.jpg NGO Work November 11, 2015: Members of the Feminist Action Campaigners (FACers) dance in protest of the curtailing of women's right to self-expression at a local bar in Harare. - For the FACers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1500808515838-JSYVMVM3X04HNPWQF5XO/Cash+Transfer+Project_Masvingo+Province_Care+International+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_19.jpg NGO Work Lizzy Hofisi selects peanuts from her home garden in Zaka District, Ward 4, Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Lizzy and her husband, Robert Hofisi, are beneficiaries of the CARE cash transfer project which has helped them take their 3 children to school. - For CARE International UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546683955218-YA6PV6RHLD9ZXCBT0VF7/CM_060318_27.jpg NGO Work Bekezela Ncube (24) is an intern at the Sisters with a Voice Clinic in Bulawayo. “ Through the training at Sisters Clinic, I am empowered to promote safe sex something I could not do before. Young women are vulnerable and at risk because they are not empowered to negotiate for safer sex.” - Gates Foundation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546686795954-V6DXS4EC0NAHS4T4ETPZ/Marie+Stopes+Zambia_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_2018_028.jpg NGO Work Esther Mwale is a teen connector at Marie Stopes Zambia’s Divine Diva Centre. - For Marie Stopes International UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1544439893071-UXOOIYRIYXIF9Q3K8NIT/Zimbabwe_May_2018_Prison+Project_CRM_107.jpg NGO Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486047503746-MTGQQ87FOLX56LOXYFYX/Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_High+Res_Processed_023.jpg NGO Work July 12, 2016: Lucia searches for her sack of bananas as they arrive at Mbare in Harare. Many women from Honde Valley sustain their families through buying, ripening and selling bananas from their local communities in the Eastern Highlands. - For Lendwithcare, commissioned by FotoDocument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1486206046735-LI4GZVJ3JFCS1GBSRYU2/Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_High+Res_Processed_Extra_01.jpg NGO Work July 2, 2016: Lucia Mudima (51), a widow with 4 children, at her marital home in the Mandeya area of Honde Valley in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Lucia buys unripe bananas, avocados and sugarcane from small holder farmers in her community which she then ripens in boxes and sells in Mbare, Harare at her market stall. - For Lendwithcare, commissioned by FotoDocument https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/editorial daily 0.75 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755980602309-XBUAA9XFF7YQHIXJPZ8N/Zimbabwe+Economy_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_30.jpg Editorial Harare, Zimbabwe - February 12, 2024: Infomal traders ply their goods outside formal shops in Harare's central business district. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755980602309-XBUAA9XFF7YQHIXJPZ8N/Zimbabwe+Economy_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_30.jpg Editorial Harare, Zimbabwe - February 12, 2024: Infomal traders ply their goods outside formal shops in Harare's central business district. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755981025425-ONZDCXM9KFF0KB3U5D35/Traditional+Birth+Attendant_The+Guardian+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_15.jpg Editorial December 2, 2019 - Mbare: 72-year-old Esther Zinyoro looks on while Winnet Nengomasha experiences contractions. Gogo Gwena referred Winnet Nengomasha to a private hospital as she required surgical delivery. Gogo Gwena is a traditional birth attendant who believes she is doing God’s work by helping expecting mothers who are turned away from modern health facilities owing to a strike by medical practitioners in Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755977747858-QSPJYNRBU12WTX2A7SER/Bikita+Minerals_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_02.jpg Editorial November, 19 2024: Operations at Bikita Minierals in Bikita, located in southern Zimbabwe in Masvingo Province. Zimbabwe, which has already increased lithium production 10-fold in recent years, is trying to become one of the world's leading suppliers of the mineral with the help of billions of dollars in investments from Chinese mining companies. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755977800445-1D5BI5LGT4OGTAVV7I38/Bikita+Minerals_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_28.jpg Editorial November, 19 2024: Operations at Bikita Minierals in Bikita, located in southern Zimbabwe in Masvingo Province. Zimbabwe, which has already increased lithium production 10-fold in recent years, is trying to become one of the world's leading suppliers of the mineral with the help of billions of dollars in investments from Chinese mining companies. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755977782571-MW12OP51RHRTNRXVOFL7/Bikita+Minerals_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_15.jpg Editorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1755977830826-2T979HX8CRWP9E591ZEB/NRZ_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_03.jpg Editorial May 24, 2024 - A Notional Railways of Zimbabwe security guard walks past a disused passenger train at the parastal's station in Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is in talks with China Railway Group Ltd. to help modernise the state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1693394290276-T60BQU9UFX3B1ORM6058/Zimbabwe+Election+Results_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_32.jpg Editorial Nelson Chamisa, leader of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), during a news conference in Harare, Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa won another five-year term in Aug. 23-24 2023 elections that international observers said were deeply flawed, and his main rival Chamisa rejected the outcome as a "sham" that didn't reflect the will of the people. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706259739-98FRMPH03WV09T530564/Science+Magazine_Maputo_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_91.jpg Editorial CISM workers hunt for mosquito larvae in a swamp in Matutuine district in Maputo Province. - For Science Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706299124-E1JP92YM6E99PM0I9H7W/Science+Magazine_Maputo_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_11.jpg Editorial Ilidio Sitoe, an insectary technician, at Centro de investigação de Saúde de Manhiça, Mozambique manually aspirates mosquitoes in preparation to conduct a bednet test for mosquito resistance to the net. - For Science Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706343844-WZ99K65A78CCFF27CBIU/Binga+Fisherwomen_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_19.jpg Editorial May 24, 2022 - Esnath rests as the rig sets sail for a night of fishing on the Zambezi River in Binga. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1693394280148-NEVKXGFBGC92QNQUG4JN/WSJ_Nurse+Migration_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_02.jpg Editorial A portrait of Douglas Chikobvu (40) a nurse at Gweru Hospital in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province. Mr Chikobvu is contemplating relocating to a first world country to access better opportunities for his family. A global shortage of healthcare workers is setting off a bruising worldwide battle for talent, as rich countries raid other nations’ medical systems for staff to take care of their aging populations. The competition is helping countries like the U.S. and Australia replace some nurses who quit in record numbers during the pandemic. - For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1693394282418-NIEZAVUDZKV5OV5GONOV/WSJ_Nurse+Migration_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_06.jpg Editorial Douglas Chikobvu (40) a nurse at Gweru Hospital in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province walks in Gweru town on his way to work from his home in Ascot Extention on Sunday July 30, 2023. - For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1693394283755-LCPZF84A4MYNKZHGZL5F/WSJ_Nurse+Migration_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_12.jpg Editorial Douglas Chikobvu (40) walks home after his shift at Gweru Hospital in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province on Sunday July 30, 2023. Mr Chikobvu is contemplating relocating to a first world country to access better opportunities for his family. - For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1693394287864-XA3DNK3WLP48MTDFA9EA/WSJ_Nurse+Migration_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_23.jpg Editorial Douglas Chikobvu (40) takes a walk with his 4-year-old daughter Bethany in his neighborhood Ascot Extention in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province on Sunday July 30, 2023. Mr Chikobvu is contemplating relocating to a first world country to access better opportunities for his family. - For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706348563-MFJQDWOUXCK0DJUOF4IV/Binga+Fisherwomen_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_24.jpg Editorial May 24, 2022 - Jimmy, a crew member, and Captain Talent draw the anchor on the Zubo rig in preparation for a night of fishing on the Zambezi River in Binga, Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706370068-HSAZAT3PELDNBFYJEA35/Binga+Fisherwomen_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_37.jpg Editorial May 25, 2022 - Captain Talent (L) and Jimmy, a crew member on the Zubo rig, lay out kapenta fish to sun dry after a night of fishing on the Zambezi River in Binga, Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706373061-KP8J06VDAH0UBRNS4GKV/Binga+Fisherwomen_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_41.jpg Editorial May 25, 2022 - Rigs docked at Simatelele after a night of fishing kapenta on the Zambezi River in Binga, Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1611330514194-A7GK1XDMYN5WGIQLHF5Y/Taekwondo_The+Guardian_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_04.jpg Editorial January 15, 2021: Natsiraishe Maritsa poses for a portrait at her family home in Epworth, Zimbabwe. Natsiraishe uses Taekwondo sessions to teach and empower young girls and teen mothers in her community to prevent early child marriages. About 34 percent of girls in Zimbabwe are married before they turn 18 while 5 percent are married before they turn 15. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1611330548126-AX0PQG4HJJLTF39GKUDT/Taekwondo_The+Guardian_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_11.jpg Editorial January 17, 2021: Natsiraishe Maritsa goes through taekwondo stretching drills with young children from community at her family home in Epworth, Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1593518728775-48MVL2BLJM335JUE16F6/Time+Travel_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_01.jpg Editorial People wait in line for public transport to ferry them home after work. Under the current lockdown restrictions, only the government owned and run transport operator, Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (ZUPCO) is permitted to run to provide transport to essential workers. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1593519227855-6503NEXH3RPRV0T90DPK/Time+Travel_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_10.jpg Editorial Mairevei Mupombwa (41) stretches out her hand to a bus conductor in order for him to record her number in the bus queue. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1593519591738-21K5P0G9Y6IATY0WZ8AJ/Time+Travel_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_11.jpg Editorial Mairevei Mupombwa (R) sleeps while waiting in line at a bus station in her neighbourhood in Glen View 8, Harare. Mairevei, an essential worker working in a supermarket, leaves home at 4:30 am and walks to the bus stop 30 minutes away with her friend who also works in a supermarket. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1593520279329-M7K6M7Q4EEIM2JPX61FI/Time+Travel_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_13.jpg Editorial Mairevei Mupombwa waits in line at a bus station in her neighbourhood in Glen View 8, Harare. Mairevei, an essential worker working in a supermarket, leaves home at 4:30 am and walks to the bus stop 30 minutes away with her friend who also works in a supermarket. -For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1593520717288-A8KXYMHHHZ71PDMM23QR/Time+Travel_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_14.jpg Editorial A ZUPCO bus approaches a bus station in Glen View 8, Harare. Under the current lockdown restrictions, the government-owned and run transport operator, is the only public transport provided permitted to run. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1576157863985-3JCHQEO6AOYPMMMOA1M7/Traditional+Birth+Attendant_The+Guardian+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_15.jpg Editorial 72-year-old Esther Zinyoro (left) and would-be mother Winnet Nengomasha. Esther Zinyoro also known as Gogo Gwena is a traditional birth attendant who believes she is God’s work by helping expecting mothers who are turned away from modern health facilities owing to a strike by medical practitioners in Zimbabwe. - For The Guardian UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1571394874847-2O7SUB940DEFZL617034/Bulawayo+Water_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_26.jpg Editorial Residents of Empopini queue up for water in the southwestern city of Bulawayo. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546689579663-Y7IWE9YY85YJ9P1GGM7J/Artisanal+Miners+Umguza_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_03.jpg Editorial November 10, 2018: A miner digs for ore at Ngaka, Umguza district in Matabeleland North province 484 kms from Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. According to Zimbabwe National Statistics, mining accounts for 50% of the country’s forex earnings. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546689630147-517DJAAZR09H9XHG261W/Artisanal+Miners+Umguza_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_21.jpg Editorial November 10, 2018: Artisanal miners transport a barrow full of ore from a shaft at Ngaka, Umguza district in Matabeleland North province 484 kms from Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. According to Zimbabwe National Statistics, mining accounts for 50% of the country’s forex earnings. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546689596303-SNNA5JXSCANQKNQU8WX5/Artisanal+Miners+Umguza_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_23.jpg Editorial November 10, 2018: An artisanal miner crushes ore using a crusher at Ngaka, Umguza district in Matabeleland North province 484 kms from Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. The crusher reduces the ore to 50mm stones ready for the next processing stage. According to Zimbabwe National Statistics, mining accounts for 50% of the country’s forex earnings. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546689619836-223WAX2YN8WC7PG84Y3Q/Artisanal+Miners+Umguza_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_31.jpg Editorial November 10, 2018: An artisanal miner sifts through crushed ore powder to find gold particles at Ngaka, Umguza district in Matabeleland North province 484 kms from Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. According to Zimbabwe National Statistics, mining accounts for 50% of the country’s forex earnings. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546689629506-4MH9NO7XJY1WNTKDV0KA/Artisanal+Miners+Umguza_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_34.jpg Editorial November 10, 2018: An artisanal miner sifts through crushed ore to find gold particles at Ngaka, Umguza district in Matabeleland North province 484 kms from Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. According to Zimbabwe National Statistics, mining accounts for 50% of the country’s forex earnings. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1546689643588-FXBSIDSIVKU6RHVYGOO2/Artisanal+Miners+Umguza_Bloomberg_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_41.jpg Editorial November 10, 2018: An artisanal miner holds a small ball of gold at Ngaka, Umguza district in Matabeleland North province 484 kms from Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare. According to Zimbabwe National Statistics, mining accounts for 50% of the country’s forex earnings. - For Bloomberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1535793079626-5PYB00ZMFW6BHZWD5GMD/BuzzFeed+News_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20180803_05.jpg Editorial August 3, 2018: Police in anti-riot gear wait outside the Brontë Hotel after they had tried to order journalists to leave a scheduled MDC Alliance presser. - For BuzzFeed News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1535793082187-ULTRACREAQ91GZ6G7BQE/BuzzFeed+News_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_20180803_02.jpg Editorial August 3, 2018: Police officers in anti-riot gear push journalists outside the Brontë Hotel after they had tried to order journalists to leave a scheduled MDC Alliance presser. - For BuzzFeed News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1535793160020-O1VPAUIR5ZCST2J6VO76/Zimbabwe+Decides+2018_BuzzFeed+News_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_09.jpg Editorial August 1, 2018: A soldier on guard after they dispersed members of the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa who had been protesting in Harare for the release of the presidential election results. - For BuzzFeed News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1529149907696-BNUCLUPTN5EC0082ALY0/Zimbabwe+Pre-election+Economy+2018_WSJ_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_09.jpg Editorial June 8, 2018: A election billboard of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa hangs over an informal market in downtown Harare. Zimbabweans will go to the polls on July 30 to select a new president in an election where for the first time in four decades Robert Mugabe isn't a candidate. -For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1529149894974-561EGBZGOZWW9X3LR7R4/Zimbabwe+Pre-election+Economy+2018_WSJ_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_08.jpg Editorial June 7, 2018: Informal roadside mechanics work on fixing tires in front of an election poster of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in downtown Harare. - For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1529149873209-5CC0896FFTO479D2X0RD/Emmerson+Mnangagwa_WSJ_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_03.jpg Editorial June 9, 2018: Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, wearing a blazer bearing his campaign promises, speaks to The Wall Street Journal weeks before landmark national elections. - For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1529149884937-G7RW304IHAO3MB54JMOG/Zimbabwe+Pre-election+Economy+2018_WSJ_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_06.jpg Editorial June 7, 2018: Challenge Chinake prices old Zimbabwe dollar notes for a poster advertising the informal purchase of the notes, which were abandoned in 2009 amid record hyperinflation. - For The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1516612093753-381K5A0FHNP1FDSJKEAJ/Everyday+Life+in+Zimbabwe_DW_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_6.jpg Editorial January 2, 2018: A portrait of President Emmerson Mnangagwa is seen inside a photo studio along Jason Moyo Avenue in Harare central business district. Mnangagwa became the third president of Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe (93) resigned from office having ruled the country for 37 years. - For Deutsche Welle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1516612129575-4LOYR9DHWQW2LPABSBJK/Everyday+Life+in+Zimbabwe_DW_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_7.jpg Editorial January 3, 2018: Apostle Jeri Mapfumo (45), founder of the Son of God Church conducts healing session on the banks of Mukuvisi River in Glen Norah. Apostle Mapfumo moved to Harare 5 months ago from Murehwa after he realised that most of his clients were travelling the 80 kms from Harare to seek spiritual healing. Many Zimbabweans have turned to religion and faith healing with the hope of escaping sickness, bad spirits and poverty. - For Deutsche Welle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1516612134293-F5ZGA4U7OMYRNA3WX4OJ/Everyday+Life+in+Zimbabwe_DW_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_8.jpg Editorial January 3, 2018: Workers at an apartment complex in the Avenues area of Harare tend to the building’s gardens. - For Deutsche Welle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1516612071082-1YPDKIYQGN6D4NENYH8K/Everyday+Life+in+Zimbabwe_DW_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_5.jpg Editorial January 1, 2018: A man selling homemade doughnuts walks past graffiti sprayed onto an electricity sub-station on a rainy day in Engineering, Highfield, Harare. The surburb, which is the second oldest in Harare, was home to former President Robert Mugabe in the 1960s and is the birthplace of ZANU PF. - For Deutsche Welle https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/home daily 1.0 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706093064-F424X4V2H47UUBZ7IZ6P/Traditional+Birth+Attendant_The+Guardian+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_05.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1678706093064-F424X4V2H47UUBZ7IZ6P/Traditional+Birth+Attendant_The+Guardian+UK_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_05.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1628785705769-5PQSRBKMI4MPXQW9J398/Artisanal%2BMiners%2BUmguza_Bloomberg_Cynthia%2BR%2BMatonhodze_41.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1621445633671-6ORWJC50GF1JZQ51RRH2/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_01.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591290363111-D4EACEYORDVM0N14BWVN/IMG_0759.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591291166760-R2KQ317TGZSO8V4RL9Q9/Zimbabwe+Coup_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_Nov+2017_31.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599057099281-1M8EIHDOA8O2QJKOQDIB/UNDP-Angola-2019_People_water_07.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599056396000-SS3Y01AD78IN9KWQZ0PN/Women+at+Work_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_39.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1593518385373-GPQ198M4S6KSC82PHG09/Time+Travel_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_06.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599736907867-XZKJSKSD066MREDIK124/How+Did+You+Survive_10.jpg Home https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/a-place-to-call-home daily 0.75 2021-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599738964964-TKSV7LWLW6ZPLCHW3GCF/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_20.jpg A Place to Call Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599743213128-EME09OUOYXZKZ1PU9YHR/A+Place+to+Call+Home.jpg A Place to Call Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267693016-MIBGHAYUQXS2SPZUKGPC/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_01.jpg A Place to Call Home “When I sit alone, when I am here, I remember all the things that my brother used to do even when my mother and father were still alive - he was a 100%, just a good person.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267713561-41GGKD76R66ZCWE2OB06/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_02.jpg A Place to Call Home Dear Anderson Phiri If you are alive I am very happy. As for me I have gone blind, I can barely see. Am also asking if Lembelani Phiri is still alive, Esteli and Aless and the daughter to Esteli, Bester. I am asking if you can write to me and tell me if you and everyone are alive. Yours William Phiri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267720009-AVYKJ3TY59A5EQ1QZLRW/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_03.jpg A Place to Call Home William Phiri wears a shirt inscribed with landmarks in Zambia at the country’s independence in 1964. He got the shirt on his last trip to Zambia and has kept it over the years as a reminder of where he comes from. “I used to wear the shirt as an undershirt before Zimbabwe gained it’s independence in 1980. You could get arrested if you were seen wearing anything that was pro-independence.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267778287-5PKB70OQ43J76WWC0ZRI/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_04.jpg A Place to Call Home William Phiri (86), is a former migrant worker who came from then-Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in the late 1950s to work in then-Southern Rhodesia. He joined the National Railways of Rhodesia (now National Railways of Zimbabwe) and worked there from 1970 until he retired in 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267809849-GX2Y2TPLVR2SMQF3F03Q/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_05.jpg A Place to Call Home Every morning William Phiri walks to a nearby catholic church in his community in Dete, Zimbabwe to attend mass. He believes God protects us all in our daily lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267871922-WM5HSG3RO9LD1DDM8ZXR/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_06.jpg A Place to Call Home The sunsets at Dete Old Age Home, in Dete where William Phiri spends the last of his days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267874253-J7MHEXUC9CEY70N3TNKW/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_07.jpg A Place to Call Home Wlliam Phiri opens his favourite Bible verse Matthew 17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267971864-YU4KMCZA138FV1VAC9DM/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_08.jpg A Place to Call Home Kapoche stream near Chinyama village in Zambia. Growing up in the 30s and 40s, William Phiri remembers catching fish from the stream with his younger brother Anderson. Now the stream has dried up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267942873-VGMY074YO78IXFN5S75X/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_09.jpg A Place to Call Home William Phiri shares a laugh with his companion at Dete Old Age Home, Dete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591267978097-UAX05JDF0O02KZEJSK0X/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_10.jpg A Place to Call Home Ezekiel Mwale and his mother Ruthe, are possibly William Phiri’s great-nephew and niece. Ruthe’s father was possibly William Phiri’s older brother, Mwanza Phiri whom he last saw when he visited his rural home in 1961. William has never met his Ezekiel and Ruthe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591268078643-KWBD9P7GMAGDL6WYT94Q/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_11.jpg A Place to Call Home The gravesite of Anderson Phiri in Chinyama Village in Katete. Anderson was William’s younger brother whom, while growing up, spent most of his days with fishing and playing soccer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591268022039-OFE17XPI6EPWCAW3QF9W/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_12.jpg A Place to Call Home A balloon sits on a table inside the old age home cafeteria after Easter weekend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591268062395-OON7VUTGCLCFIR4M7FME/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_13.jpg A Place to Call Home The road to Katete, Zambia, William Phiri’s rural home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591268106573-2RSKDKLFGJQJN45VFCQZ/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_14.jpg A Place to Call Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1591268119407-UTJN3VK4WWHEBUXPEBSK/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_15.jpg A Place to Call Home Every morning William Phiri walks to a nearby catholic church in his community to attend mass. He believes God protects us all in our daily lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599736387333-M1V5H9G96AYK50STIRX1/Magnum+Foundation+SJF+2019_CM_21.jpg A Place to Call Home “This is our home. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735623746-V7PQDHT2CT40GIO0UCUH/How+Did+You+Survive_03.jpg How Did You Survive? “I treat myself as if I have the virus so I take Zumbani tea daily because I want to make sure that my immune system is healthy.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/5f59fec3c21f38271ec0e07b/5f5a06d818cd951327ccfdff/1599735512658/ How Did You Survive? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735587459-TX7RG71HMW0LNSTVZ3W3/How+Did+You+Survive_02.jpg How Did You Survive? “I only have R1 left after I came back from South Africa. I used up all that I had saved to come back home. I couldn’t stay in somebody’s house and I couldn’t pay rent. I was better off, in the event that I got corona, being home and close to people that could take care of me. Unlike just staying in South Africa where you can’t pay rent, you get the virus or you are on the streets.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735627177-9D7E2DHNTYMBBN8112DI/How+Did+You+Survive_04.jpg How Did You Survive? “After working in South Africa I only managed to buy myself a dress before I lost my job and had to return home. That is the dress I came back with. It reminds me the importance of getting an education. If you get an education, you can get a good job and won’t have to work odd jobs at the mercy of anyone.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735646895-CT4XHP6ZV5EWNEH40XA9/How+Did+You+Survive_05.jpg How Did You Survive? “My passport is new. I had never traveled since I got it. Going to work in South Africa was my first experience of travelling outside the country.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735716070-9M4RE9RAETWV829O2QCT/How+Did+You+Survive_09.jpg How Did You Survive? “I journal and remind myself to be grateful for what each day brings.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735706164-SPB5T2YLL9SIEA9F1O21/How+Did+You+Survive_08.jpg How Did You Survive? “I journal and remind myself to be grateful for what each day brings.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735660595-9PHKKXYSIRM5B30G7OV7/How+Did+You+Survive_06.jpg How Did You Survive? “I was worried about coming back home as I did not know what life was going to be like again. Because I had made plans to leave to try and get a better job and then in three months I was back home before time. The only reason I came back was because of the pandemic and all the ships were on standstill and there was no work.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1599735583409-PHFEDI4J320JI4EIQI4B/How+Did+You+Survive_01.jpg How Did You Survive? “What kept me going was Christian motivational sermons. I listened to them often while I was in the quarantine centre. I still listen to them while I am here at home. They help me get through.” https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/women-at-work daily 0.75 2020-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600582938316-AUOT4NL6ZCQUCMSO6DEF/Hivos+Women+%40+Work+Intro.jpg Women at Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600582938316-AUOT4NL6ZCQUCMSO6DEF/Hivos+Women+%40+Work+Intro.jpg Women at Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600582956680-A0G3MFDPGJMKOTJUSVTR/Roselyn.jpg Women at Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583088542-R571W1GF55YS2M48A0Z7/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_08.jpg Women at Work October 21, 2018: Roselyn walks back to work from her home on the farm compound after checking on her children during her dinner break. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583036356-781JQWY672NZDY1RZ9S0/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_01.jpg Women at Work October 5, 2018: Roselyn sorts through flowers at the farm’s grading shed. She has worked at the farm for four years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583150413-00Z9A09ZLB0J9PWHSM7X/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_10.jpg Women at Work October 21, 2018: Roselyn and her fellow grading shed colleagues chat during a dinner break on a day when they had a long shift. When they work into the night dinner is provided for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583047534-KVIG7V3CC6A27ZCEN8MS/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_04.jpg Women at Work October 5, 2018: Roselyn stands at her doorstep watching her neighbors doing different chores. Some farm workers at Running Dog Farm live in the farm’s compound with their families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583202040-FZB8SAUBKOWTIRYLZ3ID/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_14.jpg Women at Work October 22, 2018: Roselyn takes a moment to rest and take off her gum boots at a neighbor’s doorstep after a long day at work at the farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583193017-C1R7B0DXGBO53HBCMYW8/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_15.jpg Women at Work October 22, 2018: Roselyn takes a moment to rest at her doorstep after work in the farm compound. She is a single mother of 4 who lives in a one-roomed house. Growing up she was a Jehovah’s Witness and wanted to work at the church offices and at some point she did but lost her job because she got pregnant and was in a committed relationship, which she says were against the church’s rules. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583083738-98LBIBO840E113GYF38B/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_07.jpg Women at Work October 21, 2018: Roselyn washes he hands after having dinner at home while watching TV with her son Brendon in their one-roomed house on the farm compound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583296874-DA1LKVIYFCGJMTYKGNSY/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_18.jpg Women at Work October 22, 2018: Pictures of Roselyn’s family are displayed at her home on the farm compound. Roselyn is a single mother who takes care of her four children with the money that she earns as a general hand in the flower grading shed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583248000-9WKGEQKPGMU6AOVELVP8/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_16.jpg Women at Work October 22, 2018: Natasha Findi, one of Roselyn’s daughters, hangs her siblings school forms that she washed at the farm’s compound in Mount Hampden. Natasha is a special needs child who doesn’t go to school because the schools Roselyn can afford don’t have programs for special needs children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583263071-ZXTEFUZNRHYV4I9OTBY7/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_17.jpg Women at Work October 22, 2018: Belinda Findi, one of Roselyn’s daughters, play writes at a neighbor’s doorstep at the farm’s compound in Mount Hampden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583334004-IQ66MXLRCLQ1RATJ1LJV/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_22.jpg Women at Work October 24, 2018: “My hands are stained because of work. They are now rough and discoloured. I feet are actually now softer than my hands.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583347886-CDL2J79N61XH155294IK/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_EX_Cynthia+Matonhodze_01.jpg Women at Work October 5, 2018: Roselyn looks in the mirror while preparing herself to go out after work at the farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583313832-CDF29OYVXTF3S47B04Y3/Roselyn_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_20.jpg Women at Work October 22, 2018: Children play at the farm’s compound at Running Dog Farm in Mount Hampden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583339723-OTRPRHYEVIFQA4B6OAPU/Rekina.jpg Women at Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583372946-G7ANVBRF8Q8MMMOHYO0J/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_03.jpg Women at Work October 8, 2018: Rekina Chivhange (42), a widow and farm worker working at Running Dog Farm in Mount Hampden. Rekina has worked as a general hand for 5 years at the farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583679516-NVYZZYTAS1MA19PO8MTG/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_28.jpg Women at Work October 20, 2018: Rekina harvests Aster Dark Milka flowers in preparation for grading at the grading shed where they are selected according to height and packed for shipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583421114-YEWHO7ZMITZHK36CAO51/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_05+%28a%29.jpg Women at Work October 10, 2018: Rekina Chivhange carries a bucket of Paquita flowers during the harvesting season at the farm. As a general hand, her work is seasonal and depends on what is happening at the farm during a particular period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583587395-XMYHRPE2C7NR3FCVVSOR/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_23.jpg Women at Work October 20, 2018: Rekina arranges harvested Aster Dark Milka flowers in buckets awaiting transportation to the grading shed where they are graded according to height and packed for shipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583624122-2PLG6MLI724MII42WDC4/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_26.jpg Women at Work October 20, 2018: “Since I started working at Running Dog Farm, I have never received protective gloves to use when harvesting flowers. We use our bear hands and over time the flowers cut through the skin and leave dye on our hands.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583433250-GAHNF8UAKUGZGWB7MOX0/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_06.jpg Women at Work October 8, 2018: “I don’t rest because at work I spend the whole day working and then when I get home there are things that I have to do.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583490986-BZRPN8YKNT36RJPUNQ3Y/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_09.jpg Women at Work October 8, 2018: Rekina walks to a man-made dam near her home to fetch water for washing her dishes and clothes. The area is rife with informal brick makers, that have created mini-dams in the process of digging sand to make bricks. Because the water is not protected, she accesses water for drinking and cooking at a borehole near her home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583539744-AYJSJS221FHT9TEPW7I4/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_18.jpg Women at Work October 15, 2018: Rekina enjoys a light moment with her son Emmmanuel, while looking through his old exercise books from school. Emmanuel (15) works loading bricks at an informal market near his home at Beta in Mount Hampden. He stopped going to school in Grade 7 as his mother could not afford his school fees. He used to learn at Alpha Brick Primary where his fees was $25 per term. Rekina earns $3.42c per day before union and pension deductions. She works anywhere between 25 and 27 days and can earn between $79 and $81 per month. “My son has the desire to go back to school. He often takes out his old schoolbooks and reads them but he can’t go further without completing his primary school education.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583554075-JIPD2QGL2X4G8PDQY48V/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_20.jpg Women at Work October 15, 2018: Rekina holds an old picture of her late husband, Masaka Chimutanda (L). He committed suicide January 10, 2017 at their current home in Mount Hampden. He never left a note. “I was hurt and still wonder what happened because he never said anything or left a note.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600583700189-DQ7H5OBRXH688ZPPFRVT/Rekina_Running+Dog+Farm_Cynthia+Matonhodze_30.jpg Women at Work October 24, 2018: Rekina chats with her workmate Mazviitirei Chokufora after work as they walk home. https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/a-living daily 0.75 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600595020011-5BZQPD4E1VD3HSI7O04H/A+Living.jpg A Living https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600595020011-5BZQPD4E1VD3HSI7O04H/A+Living.jpg A Living https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594180816-4ULATFRYXS59ZD56KCM1/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_2.jpg A Living September 14, 2014: “I grew up poor. I fractured my ankle one day in 2011 when a fellow vendor pushed me while we were trying to run away from City Council police. My life changed after that. I lost a lot of money trying to get my ankle back to normal but I have never recovered.” - Duduzile Ncube (40), a street vendor in Harare. She has been earning a living through vending for more than 15 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594216283-WZI6XEFZ6AUVICKW1E1O/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_4.jpg A Living December 16, 2014: Duduzile Ncube (L) is helped by a fellow vendor in Mutoko, a small town about 144 km from Harare, where she purchases mangoes to sell in Harare when they are in season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594218291-966SM0ZHLP1Y8004IZ23/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_3.jpg A Living April 25, 2015: Having been brought up in Seventh Day Adventist home Duduzile Ncube always prays before leaving her home in Hopely Zone 6 for the CBD in Harare to sell her wares. "There are a lot of challenges one encounters when selling. You can come back home without selling or there can be a council police raid. Anything can happen but I always leave it to God and thank Him for my life." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594260463-2OKPB6D5TDXXCQ1ESMP5/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_5.jpg A Living December 1, 2014: “Poverty taught me how to make sweeping brooms. When baskets were no longer profitable in the 90s in Harare, I learnt how to make sweeping brooms to survive.” Gogo Mpofu (69), a street vendor in Harare, who took her two married sons to school with the money she earned selling her wares and now she is taking her two granddaughters through high school. She has been a vendor for more than 25 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594303591-FFK15SCHTACHZ2NGG1H2/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_8.jpg A Living November 18, 2014: Duduzile Ncube waits for customers on a cold night in Harare. “I work my hardest for my children even when it is raining because I don’t want them to end up street kids or herd boys in the rural areas. They will end up blaming me, their mother, for not giving them a chance.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/5f671cb7b20b9126798e7434/5f671d2ab71066357b02ae0b/1600593194340/ A Living https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594183570-6YRB5E0KEBAG51S8NL56/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_1.jpg A Living June 24, 2015: A woman cries during a protest by street vendors opposing the government's decision tJune 24, 2015: A woman cries during a protest by street vendors opposing the government's decision to have all street vendors removed from the CBD in Harare. Street vendors, often termed illegal vendors, have been blamed for making the city look dirty.o have all street vendors removed from the CBD in Harare. Street vendors, often termed illegal vendors, have been blamed for making the city look dirty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594245029-YST8CUY85RWNMOYM47VN/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_6.jpg A Living June 2, 2015: Miriam hangs her school uniform on the washing line in preparation of school the following day. She attends Lutsha Primary School in Nkone, Nkayi where she is a prefect and writing her Grade 7 exams. Gogo Mpofu has been taking her to school with the money that she earns from selling vegetables and sweeping brooms at night on the streets of Harare since her father died in 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594330987-7FOIK97ZIYJHGBNW225X/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_9.jpg A Living March 28, 2015: Duduzile and Morgan, her partner, relax while reading the Bible at their home on a Sabbath in Hopely Zone 6, Harare. She was raised a Seventh Day Adventist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594283319-ZTDY5KKL5I7RDE59K7QG/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_7.jpg A Living January 17, 2015: Gogo Mpofu makes goat meat for her grandchildren when she visits them at the beginning of the school term at the family rural home in Nkone, Nkayi in Matabeleland North. When she is back at work in Harare Gogo always jokes that, “Other grandmothers are in the rural areas sitting by the fire but I am selling in town so that I can take care of my grandchildren.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594333896-SQXV5QGWNMM0OUI5E8WG/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_10.jpg A Living December 16, 2014: Matron (21), Gogo Mpofu's oldest granddaughter, does her grandmother's hair at their rural home in Nkayi. "In the old days, when I was younger, I always enjoyed straightening my hair. Now my grandchildren always make sure that I look my best." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594355373-E9CA0WRTOJEO0X68W9XL/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_11.jpg A Living January 14, 2015: Gogo Mpofu plays with her first great grandchild on her way to Nkayi to visit her granddaughters. She travels the 617km route from Harare to Nkone, Nkayi two weeks before the school term begins and stays a week longer to pay school fees and make sure the girls have everything they need. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1600594370105-HZKNFPOZ7PI9R9SWKO1U/A+Living_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze_12.jpg A Living February 15, 2015: Lizzie (15), Gogo Mpofu's granddaughter and namesake, greets her grandmother as she arrives home, in Nkayi for a visit. https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/film-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1760877983338-WNXDPMUNK2QTBJ4QYEL0/image-asset.jpeg Film - Chad. WFP-UNICEF partnership on School Feeding and nutrition programme. School meals serve as an incentive for parents to enroll and keep their children at school. WFP supports the community in Gondje in Chad with an agricultural food production program to diversify school meals. - For WFP Chad Roles: Cinematographer and Editor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1760877810048-1HS0JQZ3HT8QA3W1MQRV/Picture+1.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1760877983338-WNXDPMUNK2QTBJ4QYEL0/image-asset.jpeg Film - Chad. WFP-UNICEF partnership on School Feeding and nutrition programme. School meals serve as an incentive for parents to enroll and keep their children at school. WFP supports the community in Gondje in Chad with an agricultural food production program to diversify school meals. - For WFP Chad Roles: Cinematographer and Editor https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/73621b8a-3844-4a00-b08c-878340106643/IMG_0723.jpg Bio - Bio I am Cynthia, an independent documentary photographer, sometimes a photojournalist and videographer currently based in Harare, Zimbabwe. The focus of my work, since I began photographing in 2012, has been social issues, mostly in my native country, Zimbabwe. I am a holder of an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Zimbabwe and a Photojournalism and documentary photography qualification from the Market Photo Workshop in South Africa. In 2016, I participated in the first World Press Photo Foundation East Africa Masterclass. I am a founding member of the Zimbabwe Association of Female Photographers, a member of Women Photograph, the World Press’ African Photojournalism Database and a Magnum Foundation Social Justice Fellow. My work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian UK and commissioned by various international NGOs. I am currently a Master of Documentary Arts candidate at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589237225016e1d643cf56a9/1594633083248-YWETHVZD7QD3UEDW408V/Portrait_Cynthia+R+Matonhodze.jpg Bio https://www.cynthiamatonhodze.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-04