Empowering Youth. Shaping Futures.
Orbit International is a youth-focused NGO dedicated to empowering young people as current and future leaders. It promotes inclusive development by recognizing every youth’s potential, regardless of background, and offers platforms for policy advocacy as well as skills training to support economic empowerment.
The organization aims to transform youth mindsets and tackle real-life challenges they face through learning, innovation, and practical solutions.
Mission
To propel youth development through giving them platforms to lobby for policy change, whilst also giving them skills in different sectors to empower them economically.
Vision
Putting young people at the forefront of development
Meet our team
Our Directors
Unique Zimuto
Director
Unique Chiza Zimuto is a Development practitioner,Award Winning Media practitioner, Digital Content Producer, Documentary Producer and Director, She believes in youth being put at the forefront of Development through giving them a voice on various development platforms.
Ignatious
Chairperson
Is a Development Practitioner who is passionate about propelling youth development through health. He sits on various boards that are fighting for youth’s Sexual Reproductive Health Rights
Primrose Matanga
Board Member
She is a Social Worker and counsellor working with youth living with HIV and AIDS. She believes in youth’s playing a key role in national development. She believes youth should not only be seen but they should also be heard.
Confide Zimuto
Board Member
He is a Legal Practitioner for Human Rights. His favorite quote is “No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it”. Confide believes in standing up for minority groups’ rights and defending youth at the heart of his work.
Taariq Ismali
Board Member
Is a strategy consultant and technologist. His professional experience is in consulting, advising FTSE100 companies on their growth strategy. He is passionate about using data and analytics to solve business and social problems. Taariq holds an Engineering degree from the University of Oxford.
Kate Chambers
Board Member
Educated at the University of Cambridge, she is a former media lecturer and reporter now working in the region as a senior public relations advisor. She has worked in the public and private sectors, and is skilled in strategic communications, crisis communications, management, campaign planning, media relations and project implementation.