Angeline Rungano Makore also known as either Angeline Makore or Angel Makore is a Zimbabwean women's and girls rights activist. She is well known for advocating about ending Child marriage in Zimbabwe. She currently runs Spark R.E.A.D, a

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which was founded to empower girls and women in Zimbabwe. She is also a member of

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organization. She is regarded as one of the prominent young African women activists and changemakers.

Biography

Angeline was born and raised up in rural areas of Zimbabwe. Being a child, she endured child abuse being a victim of

child marriage Child marriage is a practice involving a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, that includes an individual under 18 and an adult or other child.* * * * Research has found that child marriages have many long-term negative co ...

as she was forced to be nearly married at the age of 14. She was nearly forced to become the second wife of her

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. She refused the marriage and since then went onto campaign in order to end child marriages.

Career

She pursued

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degree in

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and diploma in

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from the

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. She became a human rights activist especially on empowering girls and women's rights in Zimbabwe. She also worked as a volunteer in various other non profit organisations such as Girl Child Network Zimbabwe and Young Women Christian Association Zimbabwe. In 2012, she founded the Spark R.E.A.D (Resilience, Empowerment, Activism and Development) for girls and women with the core objectives of ending sexual abuse and violence against women and also to address the issues regarding adolescent health issues faced by girls. She also served as an ambassador to the International Student Festival in

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. In 2017, she was chosen as one of the members of the Peer to Peer Evaluating Judging Panel for

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's GenH Challenge.

References

Living people Zimbabwean human rights activists Women human rights activists Zimbabwean women activists University of South Africa alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Zimbabwe-bio-stub