SIFE team leaves for World Cup today

Lumpur, Malaysia, received a befitting send-off yesterday ahead of their departure today.
A team comprising Chinhoyi University of Technology students is representing the country at the event, which will be held between October 3 and 5.
The team consists of the following members: Yvette Mberi, Cynthia Manyonga, Gerald Chikazhe, Michael Musori, Maureen Makhaza, Ngonidzaishe Chimusoro and Chengetai Chitima.

At the SIFE World Cup, the Zimbabwe team will make presentations on their business projects, which will be judged against other projects by students of other universities from across the world.
Speaking at the event, Chinhoyi University of Technology Vice Chancellor Professor David Jambwa Simbi encouraged the students to adapt a sense of professionalism in their work.
“The purpose of this initiative is to teach us to bring into practice what we learn in theory, if we are merely theoretical that is the death of our dreams.

“There is therefore need to be honest and factual in these projects,” he said.
Africa SIFE regional vice president Lena Zamchiya, who is also chief executive officer of non-profit organisation, the Building Opportunities on Student Talent (Boost) Fellowship, said the team had shown immense potential to scoop the top prize.

The Boost Fellowship acts as a SIFE national representative here in Zim- babwe.
“The team has shown vast improvement from the national competition that was held in July.

“Zimbabwe is a blooming economy, and these students are basically reflective of that,” she said.
In respect of this year’s SIFE national competitions, Chinhoyi University of Technology scooped the first prize, with Midlands State University taking first runner-up and the Women’s University in Africa clinched the second runner-up post.
CBZ Bank and ZB Bank are largely bankrolling the Zimbabwe team’s participation at the 2011 World Cup.
Founded in 1975, SIFE is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to bringing together the future leaders to create a better, more sustainable world through business development. SIFE teams are organised by individual university campuses.
The 2011 SIFE World Cup provides a showcase of the impact that SIFE teams
are achieving around the world and will bring together an international network of more than 1 500 student, academic and business leaders from more than 39 countries.
In terms of the structure of the SIFE World Cup, competing teams will be placed into eight opening round leagues.
From there, two teams from each opening league will advance to the semi-final round of competition where, through a drawing of time-slots, the teams will place themselves into four semi-final leagues.
Emerging from the semi-final round of competition will be four teams who will draw for time-slots in the final round of competition and the chance to be named the SIFE World Cup champion.