Zimbabwean youth's dreams fly high in space

STORY: Zimbabwean youth's dreams fly high in space DATELINE: Sept. 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:58 LOCATION: Harare CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the awarding ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ASA KING ZVIHARI, Local artist 3. various of the awarding ceremony 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): NICOLE NJANJARI, Local artist 5. various of the awarding ceremony 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ZHOU DING, Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe 7. various of the awarding ceremony 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): PAINOS GWEME, Acting Director General, Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency STORYLINE: The Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe on Wednesday held an awarding ceremony for two prize winners of the "My Dream" Painting Competition for African youth. Ten paintings, including one by Zimbabwean girl Hope Mafiko, won the "Tian He" Award, the first prize. Mafiko's colorful painting, "One of the Best Interior Architects in Africa," depicts two African girls looking up to the sky, which vividly depicts humanity's yearning for the myst

Zimbabwean students' paintings sent to China's space station

STORY: Zimbabwean students' paintings sent to China's space station DATELINE: June 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:56 LOCATION: Harare CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of artworks and student painting 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HOPE MAFIKO, Student 3. various of Hope Mafiko 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): HOPE MAFIKO, Student 5. various of Hope Mafiko 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): HOPE MAFIKO, Student 7. various of Asa King Zvihari 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): ASA KING ZVIHARI, Fine arts student 9. various of artworks on display STORYLINE: A work by Zimbabwean art student Hope Mafiko for the "My Dream" painting competition is among the artworks by African youths that were sent to China's orbiting Tiangong Space Station on Tuesday by the Shenzhou crewed spacecraft. The competition, which was co-hosted by the Secretariat of the Chinese Follow-up Committee of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the China Manned Space Engineering Office, saw African youths from over 40 countries putting their dreams into drawings