Board of Trustees
NAME: CHRISTOPHER CHAKWANA
AGE: 24
HOBBIES: BLOGGING, WRITING POETRY AND
FICTION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND READING
PROFESSION: TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY STUDENT
COUNTRY: ZIMBABWE
ROLE IN IHAV: ORGANISING HEAD
BRIEF SUMMARY
I am an energetic and goal oriented undergraduate student of Textile
Technology at the National University of Science and Technology (
NUST) in Zimbabwe .I grew up in Bulawayo Zimbabwe where
I did my primary and secondary education.
A poet, avid blogger, writer, social entrepreneur and
innovator. I volunteer with the Rotaract Club of Matopos where I am one of the founding members and the current
Director of International Services. I have also been involved with UNESCO as part of
its online task force members that were responsible for the drafting of the
Youth Summary of the Education for all Global Monitoring Report. I sit on the
board of an organization called Jamili
Afrika , an organisation that my friends started in Zimbabwe.
Jamili seeks to promote the good name of Africa. I’m passionate about research
in the field of Textiles, in coming up with home grown solutions that tackle
problems that are encountered in our respective communities. I read and write a
lot of poetry of which some of my poems having been published in a poetry
anthology called ‘Via Grapevine” and on various blogs. I am also the sole creator of Scribbled
Notes (www.scribbledn.blogspot.com) a blog that has created a platform for the promotion of
young African poets.
I am passionate about the youth and their role in global
development I believe that I am the the solution to Africa and the world's
problems.I am excited by the challenges that lie ahead of me and I'm empowered
by the ideas of others like me, young minds from all over the globe who aspire
to see change in the world, particularly in our embattled continent of Africa. I believe in the
renaissance of Africa as being inevitable, and it requiring young leaders with
the political will and the vision to overlook the real challenges the continent
is facing today.
Currently I am a final year undergraduate student of Textile Technology.
