Career Guidance — Junior Court Counsel

Chapter 02 — Strategies & Activities

Know Your Constitution: Picture My Rights — First Career Guidance Day

On 22 May 2026, the JCC team was welcomed onto the grounds of Zengeza 1 High School for the school's first Career Guidance Day, held in partnership with the school. Director Bridgetti Mambondiani and Communications Officer Tatenda Gabi introduced Junior Court Counsel and the "Picture My Rights" activity to the assembled students as one of the day's featured sessions, alongside the school's broader career guidance programme, with Tania Chipo (Fundraising and Research Officer) rounding out the team on the day.

Each participant traced the outline of their own hand onto a large shared piece of white cloth and, using marker pens, wrote the constitutional right that mattered most to them inside the outline. Given the scale of the turnout, the cloth quickly filled with hundreds of hand tracings in a wide range of colours, forming a collective mural under the banner "Picture My Rights."

22 May 2026Date

Zengeza 1 HighVenue

200+Participants

3JCC Team on the Day

Objectives

What this session set out to do

Increase young people's understanding of the Constitution and their rights.
Integrate constitutional rights awareness into the school's first Career Guidance Day, linking rights knowledge to informed life and career choices.

Methodology

Facilitation, arts, drawing and painting

Participants traced their hands and wrote their favourite constitutional right inside, using marker pens on a large shared white cloth — a format that let even a very large group take part individually, at scale.

What the Mural Showed

How Zengeza 1 students see their rights

The rights students wrote onto the mural gave a clear picture of how young people at Zengeza 1 High understand and prioritise their constitutional rights. Several broad themes emerged:

Basic needs and survival — many hands were labelled with the right to food, water, shelter, health services and a birth certificate, reflecting how strongly these everyday needs feature in students' understanding of their rights.
Family and belonging — a significant number of entries referenced the right to family life and care, having a family, parental guidance, and love, showing that students closely link their rights to relationships and home life.
Voice and participation — several students wrote the right to be heard, freedom of speech, and the right to vote, indicating a growing awareness of civic participation and self-expression.
Growth and personal development — education and freedom of thought and religion featured prominently, alongside more personal entries such as the right to have a boyfriend/girlfriend, money, and fun, suggesting students also interpret their rights in terms of personal choice and adolescent life experience.
Protection and security — entries such as shelter, guidance, and "power and to be loved" pointed to an underlying desire for safety and support.

This mix of responses — spanning survival needs, family, civic voice, education, and personal autonomy — showed that the drawing exercise successfully created space for students to relate constitutional rights to their own lived realities rather than reciting them abstractly. Facilitators used the shared mural to draw out discussion on how each of these rights is protected under the Constitution of Zimbabwe, closing the loop between the art activity and the day's civic education objective.

Full activity report (.docx)

JCC_Zengeza_1_Career_Guidance_Day_Report — compiled by Tania Chipo.

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Gallery

Photos from this activity

A JCC facilitator in a black gown addresses a group of student participants at the Right to Education table — Career Guidance Day
A facilitator introduces the Picture My Rights activity to student "junior counsel" at the Right to Education table.

The full turnout of Zengeza 1 High School students seated on the field for the Career Guidance Day — Career Guidance Day
The scale of the day — over 200 students turned out for Zengeza 1 High School's first Career Guidance Day.

JCC team members posing with Zengeza 1 High School students outside the school building — Career Guidance Day
JCC team members with Zengeza 1 High School students outside the school building.

A facilitator explains the activity to a line of student participants in Junior Court robes — Career Guidance Day
A facilitator walks student participants through the Picture My Rights exercise at the Right to Education table.

Close-up of a JCC facilitator addressing participants beside the Right to Education table — Career Guidance Day
Explaining the link between constitutional rights and informed career and life choices.

A large group of student participants in Junior Court robes posing with the JCC team — Career Guidance Day
Student participants in Junior Court robes with the JCC facilitation team.

A JCC team member poses with three young participants in Junior Court robes beside the Junior Court Counsel banner — Career Guidance Day
A JCC team member with young participants beside the Junior Court Counsel banner.

Close-up of the shared white cloth mural filling with hand tracings and hand-written constitutional rights — Career Guidance Day
The mural in progress — hundreds of hand tracings, each labelled with the right that mattered most to that student.

A JCC facilitator poses with three young participants in Junior Court robes in front of the Junior Court Counsel banner — Career Guidance Day
More of the day's junior counsel, in front of the Junior Court Counsel banner.

A facilitator and a student hold up the completed Picture My Rights mural, surrounded by students in career-day costumes — Career Guidance Day
The completed "Picture My Rights" mural, held up amid students dressed for the day's wider career guidance programme.

SUCCESSES

Reach beyond expectation

A turnout of over 200 participants — far beyond a standalone JCC event — and successful integration of Picture My Rights into a wider school programme, reaching students who might not otherwise engage with a dedicated rights-awareness event.

LESSONS LEARNT

What worked, and why

Hosting the activity within a school-wide event significantly boosted participation. The hand-and-cloth format scaled well, and students' rights choices revealed a strong link between constitutional rights, family life, and career aspirations — useful for shaping future sessions.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Planning for scale

The turnout stretched markers, cloth and materials thin. Future large-turnout events should budget in advance for extra supplies and facilitators so every participating student can be accommodated comfortably.

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Latest updates

A running log for this activity. Add a new dated entry each time something changes — a repeat session, new numbers, a new photo set.

22 May 2026

First Career Guidance Day — Zengeza 1 High School

Over 200 students took part in the Picture My Rights mural activity as part of Zengeza 1 High School's first Career Guidance Day. Full write-up, photos and the downloadable report are above. Compiled by Tania Chipo.

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