Key responsibilities, Activities, progress and impact Orientation with prisons in Zimbabwe and Activities. Upon starting to work with ZACRO - Mrs Ponbde identified needs of the inmates at four prisons. She was engaged in resource mobilization for children in those prisons and sick inmates. The Development Worker approached Adventist Relief Agency (ADRA) and sourced supplementary food for sick female prisoners and their children in prisons which included Mutimurefu prison in Masvingo, Chikurubi female prison and Harare Central Prison. Mrs. Ponde also managed to link ZACRO with FAVCO - a company that deals with marketing of fruit and vegetables. The result - ZACRO managed to obtain vegetables from FAVCO and distributed these to Chikurubi Female and Harare Central prisons. Mrs Ponde was effectively engaged in capacity building with main focus placed on planning, research, documentation, knowledge management, fundraising, monitoring and evaluation. She assisted ZACRO with effective proposal writing which included proposals on plight of women and children in prisons, the prison visitation program, the Anti Death Penalty campaign and the food and security proposal for farm prisons. All these proposals except the one on the campaign against the death penalty had a component of HIV and Aids programming since ZACRO did not have resources for the HIV and Aids program. • Mrs Ponde provided technical assistance to ZACRO and its branch members in matters pertaining to corporate governance for example building capacity of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and subcommittees, developing and reviewing organizational systems and policies. She was involved in formulation of policies such as human resources policy after she successfully managed to build capacity for the NEC and secretariat staff when she hosted a secretariat strategic planning workshop for the organization in June in Harare. Based on needs analysis she provided assistance in the development of training manuals and tool kits while set to conduct HIV / Aids related trainings – components of which to include psycho-social support, home based care, nutrition, mainstreaming HIV/Aids and awareness raising for prison wardens, prison inmates, ex-offenders and where possible the spouses of inmates and exoffenders. This was after she got insight into the magnitude of HIV Aids problem which has become worse in prisons and need HIV/Aids mitigation programs to be introduced in prisons. By end of the y6ear the Development Worker was just waiting for resources mainly funding for the program to effectively start in the country’s prisons. • The Development Worker also played a pivotal role in the development of awareness raising and marketing strategies for ZACRO as an organization. She also worked on a media strategy in bid to effectively raise awareness to stakeholders on the work of ZACRO. Hence Mrs. Ponde managed to foster good relationship with ADRA which donated 77 boxes of food staffs for the women prisoners and their children in the prisons. She also managed to market ZACRO Marimba SDA donated cloths and Dorcas Ministries donated sanitation to women and children in Chikurubi female prison. These took time off for a prison visit where they shared the word of God and played netball with the female offenders. Other Major Partnerships and Linkages Created Besides networking and creating linkages with Progressio and other notable groups such as ZESN, ADRA, ICRC, FAVCO, Environment Africa, Lawyers for Human Rights, NANGO and of course the British Embassy among major 53