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🇿🇼 Zimbabwean Universities Initiative

Freedom of Religious Belief on every Campus

We help students build humanist chapters at universities across Zimbabwe — and connect them with campus debate societies. Because the best way to test an idea is to argue it well, together.

Why campuses

University is where minds open

For many young Zimbabweans, campus is the first place they meet people who think differently and the first time they’re free to ask the big questions out loud.

Kampus Konnect gives that curiosity a home. A humanist chapter is somewhere to belong, to reason together, and to do good on campus. Pair it with a debate society and you get something powerful: a generation that can disagree well, change its mind, and lead.

Kampus Konnect debate session and documentation
What chapters get

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Chapter starter kit

Branding, a simple constitution template, and everything you need to register as a recognised student society.

Debate partnerships

Atheism and debate go hand in hand. We link chapters to debate societies for friendly clashes on ethics, science and belief.

Mentorship

A Young Humanists mentor to support your committee, plus training in facilitation, public speaking and safeguarding.

Platform & reach

Record at the Digital Hub, feature on our podcast, and take your campus’s best arguments to a national audience.

How it works

Start a chapter in four steps

01

Gather a few freethinkers

You only need a handful of curious people to begin. We’ll help you find others on your campus who think the same way.

02

Register your chapter

Tell us about your university and we’ll set you up — a starter kit, guidance on student-society registration, and a mentor.

03

Link up with debate

We connect you to your campus debate union and the inter-varsity circuit, so reasoning out loud becomes part of campus life.

04

Meet, debate, grow

Run discussions, host speakers, join inter-varsity debates and socials — and plug into the wider Humanists Zimbabwe community.

Female debate speaker addressing university audience
Debate, naturally

Where atheism and debate meet

Freethinkers have always loved a good argument. Debate clubs are full of people who question everything. Kampus Konnect deliberately bridges the two, hosting joint sessions and inter-varsity debates on ethics, science, religion and society.

It’s how we build a culture that prizes evidence over volume, and curiosity over certainty — one motion at a time.

Coming to a campus near you

Universities we want to reach

Don’t see yours, or want to be the founder on this list? That’s exactly who we’re looking for.

University of ZimbabweNUSTMidlands State UniversityGreat Zimbabwe UniversityChinhoyi University of TechnologyHarare Institute of TechnologyBindura UniversityLupane State UniversityAfrica UniversityWomen’s University in AfricaManicaland State UniversityGwanda State University

Be the founder on your campus

Tell us your university and we’ll help you start. Whether you’ve got a committee ready or you’re a curious team of one — we’ll take it from here.