Our Purpose
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* Giving Hope and Inspiration to Cancer victims * Self Empowerment * Spreading awareness * Raise funds for Cancer patients * Create brand recognition to sponsors * Transform the Fundraising industry with our new concept * Building Support systems for Cancer victims * Creating a broad platform for Designers and Models to get exposure * Opening up new channels for networking within the business industry |
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Our Bulawayo FDE Team
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Aisha DeBeer - CEO and Founder of FDE
Raquel Fouche - Executive Event Manager Khulekani Iyanda Ndlovu - Blogger and Backstage assistant Samantha N Tshuma - Model Traning and Backstage Coordinator(Open EYE STUDIO) Saied Harverye - Assistant/Caterer Sherine Anne Taylor - Event Coordinator 
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Future Events
on Aisha is currently looking to spread her wings as the FDE Founder and is venturing into new innovative projects to help spread awareness and raise funds for cancer patients in Zimbabwe.
Mobile application is availablehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zw.co.webgems.Fashion_Designers_Expo_Zimbabwe
Download our app. Available for Android only. Thank you Webgems Harare for designing our mobile app. |
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Sherine Anne Taylor Testament
Sherine Anne Taylor, Bulawayo born. I am currently a Personal Assistant at United Refineries Limited. I also run a toy store “Oliver Twisted”. I believe in inspiration and hope, that the best love is the love that gives without expectation and without return, that its takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life and in a broken down society such as ours this has become a necessity. I believe that every person on this earth can make a difference.
What inspired me to join the FDE Zimbabwe Fashion fights cancer this year is firstly I believe completely in giving back to society, I believe that we as a people, a family, a community, a society and lastly as a nation need to come together if we are to confront anything that threatens our existence. CANCER SUCKS and it threatens our very existence!
If I am to be completely honest I never got involved in any cancer movements before, simply because I felt “what was the point” everyone I knew, loved and respected that was diagnosed eventually passed on despite all the funds raised and treatments received. I felt why not give to where it made “better” sense, child hunger, poverty, of which I birthed Fight Hunger One Meal at a Time, I selfishly believed that these are the areas that make a difference and good comes of it.
I stand corrected. Aisha took a step, a single step that rallied people, organisations and businesses alike behind this cause. Out of curiosity I tagged along and had the privilege of listening to a young man Zulfiquar Ali Esat “Zulfi” he is known to his friends. I heard his story and for me time stood still. My very perception of the disease and its ripple effect changed that evening. I again had the privilege of driving to Harare with this same young man for the Harare event “God strategically places people in our lives for a reason and a purpose” and we spent most of the drive to and from chatting and the revelations he had of a disease that ravages families of what he endured moved me but most of all his strong undaunted spirit, his zest for life, his need to fight back. This alone made me realise that this disease comes to steal, to steal not only good health, but dignity, hope, faith the things that we wake up to every morning. This disease not only steals from our loved ones diagnosed but from mothers, fathers, sister, brother, sons, daughters and the list goes on who have to stand by and watch, we too are victims, we to suffer, and we too have the power to fight back. So for me he gave me reason to believe that there is “Hope” and if we stand together as a family we can fight back and yes maybe we can’t save all our loved ones but is a testimony of one “Zulfi” not a victory? I believe it is and so I’m taking my one step to be part of something good, something worthy and something maybe not all lifesaving but certainly life giving.
What inspired me to join the FDE Zimbabwe Fashion fights cancer this year is firstly I believe completely in giving back to society, I believe that we as a people, a family, a community, a society and lastly as a nation need to come together if we are to confront anything that threatens our existence. CANCER SUCKS and it threatens our very existence!
If I am to be completely honest I never got involved in any cancer movements before, simply because I felt “what was the point” everyone I knew, loved and respected that was diagnosed eventually passed on despite all the funds raised and treatments received. I felt why not give to where it made “better” sense, child hunger, poverty, of which I birthed Fight Hunger One Meal at a Time, I selfishly believed that these are the areas that make a difference and good comes of it.
I stand corrected. Aisha took a step, a single step that rallied people, organisations and businesses alike behind this cause. Out of curiosity I tagged along and had the privilege of listening to a young man Zulfiquar Ali Esat “Zulfi” he is known to his friends. I heard his story and for me time stood still. My very perception of the disease and its ripple effect changed that evening. I again had the privilege of driving to Harare with this same young man for the Harare event “God strategically places people in our lives for a reason and a purpose” and we spent most of the drive to and from chatting and the revelations he had of a disease that ravages families of what he endured moved me but most of all his strong undaunted spirit, his zest for life, his need to fight back. This alone made me realise that this disease comes to steal, to steal not only good health, but dignity, hope, faith the things that we wake up to every morning. This disease not only steals from our loved ones diagnosed but from mothers, fathers, sister, brother, sons, daughters and the list goes on who have to stand by and watch, we too are victims, we to suffer, and we too have the power to fight back. So for me he gave me reason to believe that there is “Hope” and if we stand together as a family we can fight back and yes maybe we can’t save all our loved ones but is a testimony of one “Zulfi” not a victory? I believe it is and so I’m taking my one step to be part of something good, something worthy and something maybe not all lifesaving but certainly life giving.
