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Innocent B. Chirawu
INNOCENT BLESSED (HONDO) CHIRAWU EdD (US), MA (UK), Bed (PGCE,) RMN, DTh.Cert Edu/Editing (UZ/Zou) was born in the then apartheid Rhodesia and as a child, lived in what was then known as Chiweshe T...visualizza altroINNOCENT BLESSED (HONDO) CHIRAWU EdD (US), MA (UK), Bed (PGCE,) RMN, DTh.Cert Edu/Editing (UZ/Zou) was born in the then apartheid Rhodesia and as a child, lived in what was then known as Chiweshe Tribal Trustland in Mashonaland Central province of present day Zimbabwe. He did his primary education at Nyachuru school where he was a bursary winning pupil in 3 grades. Proceeded to Howard Sec. Boarding School (1975-78) where he came top in Bible Knowledge in Mid-1978 and won a Book Prize. He then sat for his ‘0’ Level Cambridge Certificate exams, which he passed all the 8 subjects with a 1st Division results in spite the fact that he sat for those Exams when he was not too well health-wise following a nasty experience with skunk, an illness through which search for help he encountered the Gospel and received Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour around mid-1979. Afterwards, he received the Holy Spirit baptism with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and got healed miraculously in an AOGA (founded by Arch. Dr EH G) Pentecostal revival meeting when a guest speaker Apostle JK from Kenya was ministering.
He then as a bank clerk at Standard Chartered Bank Ltd before he resigned into full time church ministry which landed him in IBTC (WA) in where he graduated with a Dip. Theology in Nov 1982. After another stint in full time church ministry, he studied Woodwork and English at Belvedere Teachers College (a UZAC) where he graduated in Cert. Ed in 1987, taught 11 years during which time he became Actin D/H of Mvurwi Secondary, did his Bed (APPS) degree with the Zimbabwe Open University while heading the English dept at Zengeza 3 High. In 1999, he joined the Daily News stable as a sub-editor. He worked for the tabloid for approximately three (3) years doubling as graphic designer and assistant chief proofreader while he did part-time editing of undergraduate and postgraduate modules for Zou and also completed his first year in BA Media production before he migrating to the UK in Dec 2001. In the diaspora Innocent worked hard and earned his PGCE (Res Mat & Electronics) and a UK QTS, RMN status, a Masters in Education Practice as well a Doctorate in Educational leadership.
Since 2002 he has worked as a supply Teacher in close to fifty UK schools/Health care asst and Nurse in both NHS, Pvt hospitals and Nursing homes. Dr Chirawu is a father to 3 wonderful children all born in post independent Zimbabwe.visualizza meno