Many said she was on a road to nowhere with her street protests and various efforts to resist the most brutal government clamp down on free expression in our time, but Jenni Williams - with the other Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) - has soldiered on regardless. She has been imprisoned, beaten, battered and suffered head lice in detention so many times she had to shave her head.
For the last five years, however, Williams has been an inspiration for peaceful campaigners throughout the world. Now her efforts have been recognised by becoming one of 10 recipients of the first International Women of Courage Awards. This is an annual award that has been established by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in honour of International Women’s Day.
The WOZA coordinator is the only African woman among this first group of women from different regions around the world to receive the award.
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Carnegie Mellon started at midnight, and people will be praying and fasting throughout the day until 8 p.m. Then we are having a group rally at 8:30.
Westmont College, in Santa Barbara, California, USA. We have posters of facts and quotes about Zimbabwe all over the campus. Our campus pastor spoke a little about it in chapel this morning, and the prayer chapel will constantly have people praying all day. Our college is excited, and making a difference!! We will be closing with a prayer meeting from 11:30 to midnight, tonight in the prayer chapel.
ONU in Bourbonnais, IL is having group prayer at 5pm EST. Posters and flyers are up around campus and there is a lot of buzz about it.
Yesterday we experienced one of the greatest single events of violence in the United States on the Virginia Tech campus, here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Many of us know one of the victims, or have a friend who lost someone. In the midst of this tragedy, as the nation has turned its focus toward Blacksburg, Virginia, we are reminded that life is precious. It is a gift from God to be appreciated each and every day. As we pray for our friends and family in Blacksburg and across the country, we do not want to lose focus on the International Day of Prayer for Zimbabwe tomorrow. It is a sad time here in Virginia. It continues to be a sad time in Zimbabwe. As we join together in prayer tomorrow, may we turn our hearts as one toward God.