Family Action for Community Empowerment in Zimbabwe (FACE Zim) came into Tsitsi’s community with an empowerment package for women through the Rural Women’s Assembly. Women were conscientized   of their rights and among the many rights was that of women and land ownership which included many workshops on farming, inheritance and property rights.  She was also trained on Income Savings and Lending and her group was one of the first groups to receive a revolving fund where her group was given $300USD to start a project and it is where her long-awaited potential of being a business woman was released. Since at that time she was the only woman in her group who had a passport and she would cross the border to the nearest neighbouring country, Mozambique where she would buy and sell wares. Their group within a year weaned themselves off and went solo in the business world and she kept on trading and was determined to show the world what women were made of. As an empowered widow she was also determined to defile the odds by making sure their piece of land would be registered in her name. After a workshop on Unpaid Care Work that saw women parliamentarians attending the workshop from the Women’s Quarter, she approached the parliamentarian through her RWA leadership who then helped her fight and win the seven-year-old land battle and today she is a proud farmer, businesswoman and land owner.

Tsitsi is now a proud land owner and farmer where in the last farming season she harvested 110 bags of maize and 40 bags of sunflower and got $5000 from her harvest which she has used to buy herself a second hand car and the remainder of it used boosted her business. She now owns a grinding mill, oil pressing machines which she uses to make cooking and a shelling machine.  Tsitsi has become an icon in the community where even deep in the rural area still feels like in the urban area due to a luxurious life she now lives and now she can afford to put her grandchildren to boarding school.  In her community through other various programmes done by FACE Zim for the community leaders and together with Tsitsi’s renouncing victory, traditional leadership have begun to have a mind-set shift where they now recognise women together with their rights. To date a land audit has been conducted and the authorities are encouraging women to register so they can be given land.