As we closed a memorable yet challenging year, allow me take a moment to reflect and take pride on how we remained committed in changing the lives of women and girls amidst the backdrop of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.

In my role of Executive Director, I am in awe of how the PSD family and partners resiliently navigated through the churns, how we rose high when waves of challenges pulled us low. From the pandemic to conflicts, and other problems buffeting our Country, our perseverance, passion, and commitment enabled us to rise above all these.

As we wrapped up the year, our lessons and experiences will bring us through this next year with more vigor, precision, and sanguinity. The new PSD Strategic Plan is our new blueprint and our collective call to action. What this means is that, we need to speed up our pace, lace our hands more tightly with development partners, and run together to reach the end of the relay in the next 5 years.

With your continued commitment that will take us through this year, and our drive to achieve our vision, we shall remain persistent in not letting go of our vision and our ideal world where empowered women and girls can walk freely with full human rights, live in dignity, and contribute to building the future we all want.

May this new year bring us more hope and resilience to our country, our communities, and our families.

Warm regards,

Zurah Asanda
Executive Director
PSD.