LYNN Mukonoweshuro, the Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited (KFHL) group CEO has been inaugurated as the president of a new club of female leaders that plough back into society.

The new club SI Uyanda was on Wednesday chartered (accepted) into Soroptimist International (SI), an international body for business and women professional volunteers who work to improve the lives of women and girls.

Uyanda means love in Tonga.

The club and its members were accepted into the international body by Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland president Jackie Mosedale.

In her speech after chartering the club, Mosedale said the club had done tremendous work to merit acceptance into the international body.

Uyanda is refurbishing a cancer ward at Parirenyatwa Hospital and is running a nutritional garden for HIV/Aids herbs.

“The work that you have already achieved in the hospital and the work that you have achieved with the nutritional garden are fine soroptimist projects,” Mosedale said.

“They are what we are about. They are about improving lives, they are about enabling people to take charge of their lives and their circumstances.”

In her acceptance speech, Mukonoweshuro said the chartering symbolises the deliberate individual commitment that each member made a number of months ago and that commitment was to be of service to humanity.

“The driving force behind this commitment is the understanding that we are not put onto this earth for ourselves but we are placed here for each other and consequently the sole meaning of life is to serve humanity,” she said.

“We are therefore on a quest and our quest as club Uyanda is to find life’s deepest joy.
“Only those who have learnt the power of sincere and selfless contribution, experience life’s deepest joy and that joy is true fulfilment.”

Uyanda is the brainchild of Connie Mutunhu, counsellor SI Zimbabwe who put the idea of an additional club in Harare, one and a half years ago.

Other than Uyanda,  Harare also has two clubs, SI Harare and SI Vabatsiri that are involved in charity work.

Mutunhu said the challenge was how to bring women of diverse backgrounds together for a worthy cause.

“What I get from this is the sense of fellowship; what this coming together brings but at the same time it is the love of wanting to make a difference to less privileged women and children,” she said.

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