Zimbabwe Pharmaceutical Students Association - HIT

Our mandate is to uphold the flag of HIT in our discipline pharmacy and to promote the status of pharmacy nationwide. HIT Pharmacy Students Association End of Year Report
History
It was founded by the pioneer student of the Pharmacy degree programme in September 2011. This was after Prof Zakaria had asked us to form such an association as he wanted to link us with students from Egypt. General elections for the Association Board were carried out with successful candidates occupying posts stipulated by its constitution. The Association was approved and registered with HIT Student affairs Department. Indeed we were a very small group of just fifteen people all doing part1 and most obviously not knowing a thing about pharmacy. However the determination in us was without measure and we started off on a journey into the unknown. We spent most of the first year of our existence doing paper work and we came up with our logo which was approved by the Vice Chancellor of the Institute. Around the same time Prof Gundidza who had recently joined HIT Pharmacy from South Africa, became our first patron. He was an integral part of our Association and he attended our second board meeting and gave us an insight on our prerogatives. He was an influential figure and we all learnt a vast amount of knowledge on the purpose of having such a student body. Internally things were beginning to take shape and we began to embrace the concept that being a student is a transitional state and that our true position was being Pharmacists in the making. We then started devising means which can introduce us to Pharmacy communities in Zimbabwe and trust me it’s easier said than done. The year was rapidly coming to a close and we still had not made our mark. The pressure was gradually mounting on our board members to do something tangible and just as everything seemed to be heading down the drain; we finally got contact of Mr D. Moyo who is the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe (PSZ). He gave us valuable information on the PSZ scholarships for Pharmacy Students and how the PSZ is willing to offer assistance to HIT Pharmacy. There was a sigh of relief from everyone as we finally broke the ice and now a new task was in our hands. However this did not materialise as we closed our first year of operation with a logo on our chest and a vision in our hearts. The pioneers were now in second year and believe it or not we had juniors looking up to us. A feeling of responsibility took a hold of our hearts and made us even more determined to fulfil that which we had started. Slowly our freshmen began to assimilate our ideology and we began to pump with one beat as the PSA train began to gain momentum. Well I guess you now expect me to say something big happened, actually it did!