Ummlomo, which strives to empower people through sharing heartfelt stories by blogging, launched a movement that is aimed at mending the bridge between males and females about past traumas.
Zimasa Njoli, founder of Ummlomo, with Buhle Radebe and Lerato Motaung, assembled to make this event a possibility by bringing men and women alike, to come experience, and join in the conversation by listening and sharing unfortunate circumstances that they might have gone through without being judged, but rather, provided a safe space that allows them to heal, or share their testimonies of how they arrived at a place of healing.
The event took place at Pimville’s Grace Bible Church, which blended spectacularly with the objective that Ummlomo strives for. The penal of speakers shared personal stories that ranged from sexual abuse, depression and self-harm, and the journey that they went through to heal. Zimasa described her efforts to open up eventually inspired her to provide a safe hub for people who had gone through the same ordeal as her.
“Ummlomo is not a women-only empowerment movement, but it’s a human empowerment movement, and what I mean by that, Ummlomo aims to get the whole society healed. It doesn’t aim to empower women, but we also would like men to open up and share because if we only empower women and they are strong and powerful, we will still have men who are broken in society. It’s those same men who end up breaking the empowered woman,” said Zimasa Njoli
The name Ummlomo (deliberately spelt with double ‘m’), which means ‘mouth’ in Nguni, was intentionally chosen because it describes how we share experiences with people around us, and that is by using our mouths to get our words across to the next person.
The audience was later given a chance to ask questions regarding social issues the speakers went through and the tools which they used to tackle their past traumas, and also shared their own stories with the penal that had deeply affected them in their lives.
“If there’s no love, I walk away. If there’s no kindness, I walk away. If there’s no humility, I walk away. If there’s no generosity or integrity, I walk away, because it is not for me. Remember I said, I vibrate at the frequency that I want, and that is the frequency that I carry with me,” said Lerato Motaung in her inspiring speech.
“I am Buhle Radebe, and my soul is a battleground of expectations and abuse, but my voice is roaring healing. Let us become a generation that shares our stories. Let us Umlmomo platform to tell your story. To heal, to liberate and to be advocates for other people,” said Buhle in closing her speech. The audience saw value in Ummlomo, this was spotted by how anybody was willing to share solutions to other people’s questions as opposed to leaving every question in the hands of the speakers.
Ummlomo movement is on a path to reach, engage and support people dealing with societal social ills.
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