Young Zimbabwean Entrepreneur Listed As A Finalist For The Azinsha Prize Worth USD$750 000

19 year old High School student Farai Munjoma has been listed as a finalist for the Azinsha Prize Worth USD$750 000. Farai is doing his A’ Levels at Marist Brothers in Nyanga where he’s doing commercial subjects, namely Accounting, Business Studies and Economics.

Munjoma said his vision is to see an Africa that is free from poverty, which he believes can only be achieved if business minded individuals take ownership of empowering people.

He has identified lack of information as a barrier in most societies and has taken advantage of technology and broadband penetration on the continent by creating an educational website that addresses the need for information called Shasha iseminar.

Shasha iseminar serves as an on-line library for notes, exam papers, questions and syllabi for any Zimbabwean secondary student. The project has so far received national coverage from 4 news papers in both English and the native language Shona. As C.E.O, Farai has seen that both 2014 Advanced and Ordinary level examination groups from Marist Nyanaga and elsewhere in the country who used the website excelled.

The success of Shasha has allowed for marginalized students from Tendanayi Government school in the rural District Nyanga to receive school fees from the proceeds from the project.

Farai would like to see the organization get rid of barriers such as tribalism and gender inequality by educating the leaders of tomorrow. He also wants Shasha Iseminar to emerge as the leading innovate service provider in the country and beyond.

“We also want to create a platform for national debate were students and youths can contribute there views”, said Farai.