Glanis Changachirere

""“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.”"

"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."