Model seeks funds for Cultural Queen Africa

GWERU — A Gweru-based model, selected to represent Zimbabwe at the 2023 Cultural Queen Africa
in Nigeria, is appealing for financial assistance to cover her travelling expenses.
Charity Ivy Mutero, the first Zimbabwean to contest at the Cultural Queen Africa needs about US$2
000 for the trip.
Mutero said she also needs designers to help with her wardrobe.
She is expected to leave Zimbabwe on September 26 in time for the competition which begins on
October 1.
With one of the aims of the Cultural Queen Africa being to promote African culture and fight girl
child molestation among others, Mutero has undertaken philanthropic work and founded an
organisation that helps the girl child in rural areas.
Mutero told The Times Arts and Entertainment that she founded the Miss Chiwundura and Miss
Villages pageants to uplift and empower the girl child as well as fight child molestation in rural areas
as she is a victim.
“I experienced molestation at one stage and I do not want young girls to go through what I went
through,” said Mutero.
“I have noticed that the African rural girl is lagging behind, so I want her to gain exposure and know
that she can be like anyone else,” she said.
Mutero recently donated sanitary wear at Zororo Baptist Primary School in Chiwundura, where she
attended her primary education.
She hopes to target every rural girl in Zimbabwe during her first ever Miss Zimbabwe Villages this
December and hopes to teach entrepreneurship to the rural girl child as an empowerment tool.
Mutero said those willing to help, can contact her on social media platforms.