SAYWHAT with support from Embassy in Sweden in Zimbabwe and SAIH is implementing projects aimed at enhancing students’ life-skills and agency in responding to critical issues that relate to their health and lifestyles. Through such work, students and young people in Zimbabwe have been challenged to make informed and positive choices for their health. Through the national SASI Debate competition- which is now in its 6th edition since its inception in 2018, SAYWHAT fosters academic freedom by learners as a tool to unlock their potential in the national and regional policy discourse.
Over the years, SAYWHAT has developed itself as a safe dialoguing space for young people on Sexual Reproductive Health and other socio-economic issues affecting them. SAYWHAT has successfully embraced Debate as an effective way of not only disseminating information but also a means of retaining learned information by students. Through the debate tournaments, SAYWHAT has been developing students into becoming modern citizens compatible with developments in the 21st century by improving their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
SAYWHAT’s investments in Debate competitions have allowed student debaters to synthesize wide bodies of complex information and to acquire broad, multi-faceted knowledge cutting across several disciplines outside their normal academic subjects. This has as a result increased student debaters’ confidence, poise, and self-esteem which are critical requirements for active citizenship in the 21st century. Debate has broadly enabled student debaters to develop skills of researching, organizing, and presenting information in a compelling fashion.
SASI Debate 2019 - 2022
SASI Debate Challenge 2022
SASI Debate Challenge 2021
SASI Debate Challenge 2020
SASI Debate Challenge 2019
