User:Tinashe Mushonga

Tinashe Mushonga, born 3 August 1990 in Harare Zimbabwe. He attended his primary and secondary school in the Chikomba Central and East constituencies at Rutanhira Primary and Secondary School and Neshangwe High School respectively. After finishing high school he worked as a fuel attendant at Delta Beverages Transport Services in 2010 .The line of work was mainly to account of receiving and issuing fuel as well as transferring bulk to other Delta Corporation Deports nationwide. He also worked widely with Liquid Petroleum gas and gained much appreciation on handling it whilst practising safer environmental consciousness. He also gained deeper appreciation in handling several gas properties and its possible threats to environmental hazards and climate change. He later then got another job at MIMJ Logistics where he worked as fuel controller performing several duties in accounts, staff supervision and management. Working within the fuel industry has given him a deeper understanding of the energy regulatory by working alongside with several environmental authorities such as Environmental Management Agency as well as Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority. Part of the learning process has produced seeds of success in carrying out environmental impact assessments (EIA) on any projects or business development. After two years of extensive and intensive exposure to the working environment he enrolled with Women’s University in Africa on a Social Work Programme. He gained a deeper understanding on the social and economic challenges facing the world at micro and macro level and has gained the ability to work with individuals (casework), groups and communities. The program encompasses all facets of human livelihood from law, economics, development, psychology, human ecology, social functioning of society and development (human and economic).In 2012 he was an organising coordinator of the social work field trips at college visiting and promoting sustainable development whilst working with people living and working on the streets and at Emerald Hill working with the Deaf. In 2013 he joined The Boost Fellowship, an organisation with a mission to promote youth productivity enabling them to build successful futures for themselves and their communities. After graduating from college he volunteered within the same organisations on several programs such as ENACTUS and the Delta Ethics Transparency Initiative. Currently, he works with The Boost Fellowship on several programs including the ones mentioned above as well as Zimbabwe Works project under International Youth Foundation .He performs assessment as a of small business and existing SMEs in this program. He also conducts monitoring and evaluation business site visits on the Barclays Business Incubation Program on which The Boost Fellowship is an implementing partner around the country .Tinashe also invest his energy in article writing on his favourite topics on entrepreneurship and has done several business researches with small start ups.