Zubo Trust is a registered, women-led, non-profit making organization that aims at promoting the advancement of women in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe. It was established by Zambezi Valley women, beginning of 2009 after realizing a lack of adequate attention being given to issues that affect women and children. Zubo believes that the process of empowering women needs women themselves to take a leading role in finding solutions to the problems that affect them. Zubo Trust, therefore, endeavours to facilitate a process whereby the rural women realize their socio, economic, cultural and political potential through discussion forums, seminars, meetings; as well as advocating and lobbying human rights and gender issues
For many decades, women of the Zambezi Valley have been excluded in the development realm as compared to their male counterparts. As a result, most women suffer from an inferiority complex, which continues to make them invisible in the public sphere and subjugated to their male counterparts. This has excelled in the unequal access and distribution of resources, the domination of women in the private domain, created a limited political representation of women and a tolerance for male violence against women. Only a handful of women have attained high education with the majority being illiterate. In a way, this has negatively contributed to the gender gap in the district, alienating women in most developmental initiatives.