AUDREY MBIRIMI SUCCESSS STORY

Audrey is a young girl aged 23 doing here Secondary teaching Diploma at Hillside Teachers College under the  University of Zimbabwe (UZ).She has been doing her teaching practice at Montrose Girls High School were she was teaching English and Geography. Next year she will be going back to the college to finish her diploma of which upon finishing she intends to continue with a degree in teaching.

Audrey is visually Impaired and since she started her schooling journey, she has been using Braille  until she wrote here Advance level were she got 13 points . She stayed at home for almost two years due to financial constraints by the family. She was trained on Advocacy training  and after she engaged the Bulawayo Fort Street DSD  about her intentions to further here studies. They assisted her in acquiring a place for teaching in 2023 and all here fees were paid by the Disability fund of Government of Zimbabwe. Audrey  has successfully  achieved some medals in sports as well at the college . She has participated in the  Danhiko Paralypics Games were she participated in Discuss , shotput and javelin and she got a  Bronze medal in  Javelin. She also attended the ZITSU (  Zimbabwe  Tertiary Sport Union) Games  were she got  two gold medals  in shotput and one silver medal in Five aside  balls,the other gold medal was ana Honorary medal for  all games.

Personally she has  built herself esteem  well ,physically and economically . Meeting different characters in school children has built her confidence well such that she can take up any challenge  and overcome it. She has also enjoyed the freedom of economic dependance during here teaching practice . ALL this come from just two day training of Advocacy training she attended and the  more success are yet to be achieved .