Glanis Changachirere

Zimbabwean women’s rights activist

Glanis Changachirere is a Zimbabwean Women's rights activist. She is also the Founder of the Institute For Young Women Development, Founder and Coordinator of the African Women Leaders Forum Steering Committee of the Zimbabwean Chapter. In addition, she is a feminist and former Student Leader.

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  • "“Institute for Young Women’s Development was inspired by my personal reality of being a girl child from a poverty-stricken family in rural communal lands of Mashonaland Central Province in Zimbabwe,”
  • “I lived with my grandmother, attended a very conservative church which imposed serious effects on its parishioners. After completing primary education, I fought my family’s decision to be married off. I loved going to school and wanted to do things my own way–we fought until they took me to secondary school.”
    • [1]by Forbes, 21 January 2021, Retrieved 13 November 2023
  • As young women, we need to redefine ourselves, both to ourselves and also to the society they need to see a young women in a different way altogether.