Yolk is the internal part of egg; jam-packed with important nutrition’s that nourishes the developing embryo and if prepared for a meal it provides energy required by human body and other animals for optimal functioning.
With catalytic changes that comes by consuming the egg -yolk, to us yolk becomes a perfect symbol for a social and economic change, a catalyst that functions to enrich, nourish people at the margins of society.
Yolk Fellowship: a membership based fellowship, an emancipation platform with clubs in communities, high schools, colleges, and universities. As a gesture of social responsibility members voluntarily carryout humanitarian services and community development projects.
Torch- trains aspiring business leaders from the margins of society through a tailor made innovative-hand on 5, 8 and 11 months leadership, management and entrepreneurship programs.
Since 2016 Torch has trained and graduated 40 participants, as a result more than 30 formal business ventures are at peak of establishment.
Yolk Festival : brings together NGOs, religious organizations, business community, artists, political, community and traditional leaders to speak with one voice for social change through a 3 days program comprehensive of business, arts and culture.
Yolk Festival is conducted annually in the second week of August at the architectural Longcheng Plaza in Belvedere, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Pot | Yolk Tv | Yolk Village:
Initiator & Chief Catalyst : Gram Tinashe Makwarimba
In 2004 when I was at the age of thirteen, my father visited his maker, resulting in my mother being a widow. Little did I know his death was giving birth to first hand social and economic discrimination! Our relatives and people from the society made my mother an outcast. Our economic situation worsened, as my family lost its status in the community. We had to be resilient for us to overcome this cruel environment imposed by our culture. This was my pinching point. I later came to realize that we were not the only ones. This challenge is being faced by many other families, where widows and single mothers are the head of the family. I had to confront this problem. I strongly believed that I had what it takes to help out silent suffering widows, single mothers and their children.
Their untold suffering became my concern and burden to contribute to the social and economic development of this silently discriminated group. I felt it so deeply; it became a seal in my heart. In 2010 I found myself in a continuously adventurous journey of partial empowering, and more of charity as I was providing small grocery packages to over sixty-three families headed by widows and single mothers in Kuwadzana, a community located in Harare the capital city of Zimbabwe.
I continued my journey using meager resources I could get from my flea markets business. I thought of improving my measure, adding more of empowerment. I then started organizing emancipation gatherings for them. I organized parties, and would invite motivational speakers, and musicians to empower the women of my heart.
Widows and single mothers from my community started to tell other widows about these emancipation gatherings. With passion to see widows being emancipated, I had to expand to more than five communities, and these gatherings became a monthly platform where there were being empowered through informative speakers and musicians. The movement was growing, but financial requirements became a great need in order to fuel the events. The women had found a place which offered them hope, and so naturally they started to expect more, something beyond gathering, and I didn't have a clue on how to sustain it.
Fortunately, in February 2012 I heard about "Kanthari International Institution for Social Entrepreneurs" located in India. This would be the best place to make me a better Social Change Catalyst. I applied for a scholarship, and out of more than four thousand applications from around the world, I was selected to be part of twenty-two participants to be part of the Kanthari Leadership, and Social Entrepreneurs program.
Upon completing my studies at the end of 2015, I was well equipped with knowledge, and ideas. I would fulfill my dream of enriching the margins of society. This wasn't, and still is not an easy adventure, but passion keeps me going.
