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Mission
Our mission is to transform the problem of youth unemployment and underemployment into an opportunity for wealth creation and social improvement.

Our aim is to empower and equip young people with life skills and opportunities to become successful leaders, job creators and innovators in their communities and beyond. We believe that young people, especially university students and recent graduates, are a formidable workforce that can resuscitate the beleaguered Zimbabwean economy. However, these young people are faced with enormous barriers, particularly with regard to employment and livelihoods

Focus
Our focus is to help young people prepare themselves for success in life beyond the classroom. Students and recent graduates struggle in making successful transitions to the world beyond the classroom. Traditional classroom experiences teach them how to retain information and pass exams, but provide them little about how to thrive in the broader world as productive participatory citizens. Aim
Our aim is to empower and equip young people with life skills and opportunities to become successful leaders, job creators and innovators in their communities and beyond.

25/09/2026

When it’s Friday, you know paNhari is celebrating a changemaker ⭐

Today, features a paNhari alumnus who is building across borders and proving that young people can create opportunities while creating their own paths.

Meet Chris Nyasha Dhinembira, founder and owner of Dinfreight Logistics, a Zimbabwean company providing customs clearing, freight forwarding, bonded warehousing, cargo transport and trade advisory services across the SADC region and beyond. 🌍🚚

Chris’ journey is one of growth, courage and entrepreneurship. After transitioning from accounting into logistics, he went on to build his experience across warehousing, vehicle imports, shipping and logistics management before taking the leap into full-time entrepreneurship with Dinfreight Logistics.

As a former paNhari participant, Chris has carried lessons from his paNhari experience into his professional journey, including a passion for leadership, personal effectiveness and entrepreneurship.

Today, we celebrate Chris for building a business that connects Zimbabwe to the region and the world, and for showing us what it looks like to turn experience, courage and vision into something of your own. 🌍💼

21/09/2026

Peace is not only the absence of conflict. It is the presence of dignity, inclusion, dialogue and opportunity.

This , paNhari celebrates the young people who are building bridges, creating dialogue and using their voices to shape more peaceful and inclusive communities.

When young people are empowered to lead, collaborate and reach their peak, they become part of the work of building a more peaceful world;for everyone, everywhere, every day.

Happy World Peace Day from paNhari. 🕊️

18/09/2026

Co-design isn't a buzzword. It's a discipline.

Mush Don , founder of paNhari, shares lessons from years of co-designing programs with partners:

1. When a community organization tells you an indigenous solution works for the problem you are trying to solve, take that seriously and build around it.

The programs that failed during implementation were almost always the ones where the imported model overrode local knowledge.

2. Inviting a smaller partner into a co-design workshop and then arriving with the proposal already written is tokenism, and everyone in the room knows it.

Real co-design means their ideas shape the design, make it into the proposal, and survive into implementation.

That takes the bigger partner consciously giving up some control.

3. Ownership is what makes a program last. When partners, community members, and traditional leaders own the design, they carry it after the funding cycle ends.

I saw five-year programs continue after the money stopped because the community had already worked out how to keep it going. Programs that were handed down rather than built together tended to stop the day the grant did.

4. Trust local leaders and local teams to implement. Co-design does not end at the proposal. You have to place a lot of trust in the local organization to run the work, adapt it, and tell you when something is not working.

That trust is uncomfortable for large organizations, and it is the whole point.

At paNhari, the same philosophy applies to young people. It is not a partnership in the formal sense, but it is the same idea. Building For Youth, By Youth with young people rather than for them is the co-design principle applied to a movement. Trusting them to shape what the work looks like is what has made it hold.

Which of these lessons resonates most with your work? Drop it in the comments 👇

16/09/2026

A beautiful reminder that youth are the solution ✨

11/09/2026

When it’s Friday, you know it’s here at paNhari

Today, we feature a Pan-African climate and energy advocate who is proving that youth leadership, , and can come together to create solutions that work for African communities.

Modester Lynn is a Pan-African climate and energy advocate with over six years of experience advancing youth-led, gender-responsive climate solutions across Africa. Her work spans grassroots mobilization, policy engagement, and clean energy entrepreneurship, from training women through energy circles to supporting youth-led climate networks and developing green livelihood initiatives.

At paNhari, she brings her sharp policy instincts, regional experience, and grassroots grounding to the Youth Advisory Council, helping shape conversations around the future young Africans want to build.

We celebrate Lynn for showing us that climate leadership is not just about responding to the challenges we face, but about building the people, systems, and solutions that will carry Africa forward.

08/09/2026

What happens when meets ?

paNhari’s Phil Mlanda and Tadiwa recently travelled to Marondera to visit Shift Organic Technologies, run by longtime paNhari alumni and friend, Clive Nyapokoto.

The farm is experimenting with and walipinis; underground greenhouses designed to create more stable conditions for breeding fish during colder months.

Together, we’re exploring how technology can help make these systems smarter: using sensors to monitor things like temperature, pH and oxygen, while giving farmers better visibility into what’s happening on the farm in real time.

Albeit an early-stage idea, it’s an exciting example of what can happen when different kinds of knowledge, experience and innovation come together to solve practical problems.

Sometimes, innovation is simply about helping a good idea work better!

Innovation

28/08/2026

Fridays at paNhari means spotlighting a youth leader⭐

Today, features a young leader proving that the future of farming can be sustainable, innovative, and deeply rooted in technology.

Meet Clive Nyapokoto , Founder of Shift Organic Technologies , where he is developing , climate-smart integrated organic farming systems that rethink how we grow, produce, and live.

From aquaponics and hydroponics to fish farming, vermiculture, apiculture, herbs production and processing, and solar drying technology, Clive is exploring practical solutions that make agriculture more sustainable and resilient.

Today, we celebrate Clive for showing us that innovation doesn’t always mean looking further ahead. Sometimes, it means looking at what we already have and finding a smarter way to make it work. 🌍🌱

12/08/2026

Different contexts, same aspirations 🫂

Happy International Youth Day 🌸

07/08/2026

When it’s Friday, you know paNhari has a young leader to celebrate ⭐

Today, features a young leader who is proving that technology and youth-led movements belong in the same sentence, building the systems that turn advocacy into action.

Tadiwa Matewe is paNhari’s Innovation and Product Lead, an engineer by training who leads across paNhari’s platform suite.

Beyond the build, Tadiwa is a 2026 Sparks Impact Fellow, sharpening his own leadership while equipping the next generation of youth leaders with the technical backbone their movements need to scale.

Today, we celebrate Tadiwa for proving that innovation is a form of advocacy, and that the tools behind the movement matter as much as the movement itself. 🌍💻

04/08/2026

All smiles as friends from paNhari and The Sparks | Impact Fellowship team met in Oxford to cheer on Brilliant , who doubles up as a and is in paNhari’s Youth Advisory Council during her presentation at the global finals💐🥳

In pictures:
The Sparks | Impact Fellowship ‘s founders: Janine Rutsch Rowan Spazzoli 🇵🇸

paNhari’s Program Managaer: Samantha Katsande

paNhari’s Youth Advisory Council member: Brilliant

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http://www.paNhari.org/

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