TellZim Reporter
Budding musicians in Masvingo have received a major boost towards developing their musical careers after a youth empowerment organization MARODO introduced a competition meant to offer them opportunities to receive free training and capacitation.
The recruitment auditions set for April 22, 2023 at Mucheke Hall will target youth below 35 who are into music so that once considered, they will receive free training meant to equip them with entrepreneurship skills.
MARODO founder Acknowledge Mawere confirmed the development to TellZim News.
“MARODO as a youth empowerment organization seeks to empower youth at grassroots level so that they can be able to become socialpreneurs utilizing their talents.
“The agenda of the organization remains Gender EduTain project and thus MARODO will help train artists to advocate for Gender Justice in respective communities. If you are a youthful talented music artist, then this is your opportunity.
“The programme package will include among other issues a recording contract, radio show time, newspaper features as well as capacity building training with a certificate. The opportunity is here for budding artists to showcase their talent and get empowered,” said Mawere.
He added that the programme also aims at occupying youth as a way of fighting drug and substance abuse as well as gender based violence and national goals achievement.
“The project supports the Ministry of Youth and Recreation Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) strategy (2020-2030) which emphasizes development and growth of the sector as a critical player in the matrix of attaining an upper middle income economy as spelt out in Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030.
“It also supports United Nations (UN)’s Sustainable Development Goals such as goal 5-gender equality and goal 10- reduced inequality,” he said.
Mawere won an award as 2022 Gender champion from the Netherlands Embassy in Zimbabwe and that recognition has driven his zeal to move forward to develop the new project ‘Gender EduTain which incorporates use of art in entertaining and educating people on gender issues.
The auditions to be undertaken by MARODO, Ministry of Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation, ZIMPAST and MYAGE ZIMBABWE will be done from 09000-1200 hours.
