Background
Intersex Community Zimbabwe Trust was founded in September 2018 by Betha Tsitsi Ndabambi, an intersex woman who identified the issues faced by intersex Zimbabweans in her works as a journalist and community navigator. In Zimbabwe intersex issues have progressively emerged as relevant to fundamental rights protection. However, they are still largely treated as medical issues falling outside the scope of public scrutiny.
Mission
To provide an inclusive, safe space with a raised voice committed to a continued process of understanding and challenging all forms of oppression. The Intersex Community Trust Zimbabwe is a dynamic, responsive organisation that serves by providing a growing spectrum of programs, resources, outreach and advocacy.
Vision
A created space where members of the intersex community can find healing, connection, self-exploration and education. Intersex Community Trust Zimbabwe envisions a space that challenges oppression in its forms.
Values
- Intersectionality: Understanding that community members who hold multiple marginalised identities are exponentially impacted by multiple systems of oppression.
- Critical love: The organisation’s work utilises a love ethic informed by family values. The organisation understands that this love ethic will require compassion, challenges and support.
- Inter-dependence: Engaging in resource sharing and disrupting oppressive notions of professionalism, productivity and individualism.
Areas of Focus
The Intersex Community Zimbabwe Trust is focuses its work in the peri-urban areas and rural areas in Harare, Mashonaland East and Manicaland.
Current Work
- An established taskforce that oversees identification, vetting and registration of intersex identifying individuals. This is being achieved through our social media platforms, the local radio stations, healthcare workers, other stakeholders and fellow community members.
- Donations and distribution of resources to the marginalised and limited community members.
- Lobbying for the hormonal treatments for the older intersex individuals to achieve their reality.
- Documenting the lived realities of the intersex community through visual recordings, pictorial, story writing and audio for strengthened advocacy in order to come up with evidence based programming, capacitating and strengthening.
- Creating a stakeholders database in order to create conversations in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, National Gender Policy and The Declaration of Human Rights.
- Currently working on being adopted as a member of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and ZimRights.
Contact
Email
+263713277202 / +263772210765
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