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Fungai Chiposi 



A Brief Biography

Fungai Chiposi was born in at Edith Opperman clinic in Mbare on 1 October 1973. He moved to Mayambara, Chitungwiza in 1978 and attended Chinembiri Primary School before moving back to Mbare. He went to Harare Seventh Day Adventist School for ‘0’ Levels and Harare High School for his ‘A’ Levels. Fungai is married and a father of 4 boys.

Fungai worked for Tedco CW Stores, Development & Training Associates and Glam Office Furnishers before going into business for himself and spending 7 years as a Corporate Photographer. He founded Proudly Zimbabwean Foundation in 2012 and currently serves as the non-profit’s Executive Trustee. He also presented news on ZBC Radio 3 as well as ZimPowerFM, an online radio.

Under his leadership, Proudly Zimbabwean Foundation launched BinIt Zimbabwe campaign in 2013. The campaign was responsible for putting 318 bins in Harare Central Business District, numerous clean-ups in almost all CBDs around the country, introduction of vehicle bins and separation at source colour coded bins in Zimbabwe.

Over March and April 2014, Fungai walked for 1,000km across Zimbabwe raising awareness on litter and bringing this program to remote communities in Zimbabwe. The BinIt program was recently awarded a certificate of Excellence for Best National Social Program in Zimbabwe by the Energy Globe in Austria.

Fungai also worked with Urban Space to coordinate Colour Spekes program in Harare CBD. He serves as Deputy Chairman of the City of Harare Budget Advisory Committee. He worked with Joina City in a program that saw the re-opening of Centenary Bridge.

Fungai is co-founder and Servant of CitizensZW. The organisation has 10,000 members across Zimbabwe and in the diaspora. In 2018, he contested as an Independent MP for Southerton Constituency. He lost his bid after garnering 639 votes.

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