Our Story – Roses Life Women Center

Meet

The Founder

Rosemary Trish Mupambwa is a Community Builder, Educationist, Advocate for Women and Gender Equality, Inspirational Speaker, Domestic Violence Counselor, Cert. Transformational and Relationship Coach, Reiki Master, Transformational Retreat Leader, and a Published Author featured in major publications like:

She is a very passionate individual dedicated to creating change for women and girls. With her Social Work and Sociology backgrounds, she founded the Roses Life Women Center Foundation, a Charity organization run by a dedicated Board of Directors.

As an immigrant, she understands the struggles faced by newcomers against the silent pandemic of racism, hence, helps BIPOC communities find healing and courage to speak out about their experiences, giving a voice to the voiceless. Rosemary is working tirelessly to end Gender- Based Violence while providing a safe place for those affected to find healing and peace.

Her journey as an immigrant woman was significantly impacted by the services she did not receive from various service providers available. She needed someone who had gone through the same experience she had to understand her specific needs.

This is the reason this center was formed to help other women so they don’t have to go through the same struggles that she faced as a widow, single mother, and immigrant. She lost her husband in 2000 back in home in Zimbabwe and was left with three beautiful children. The youngest was only five years and the eldest daughter was 12 years old and the son was nine years old. She experienced a lot of grief from losing both her parents and all her three brothers from 2003 to 2019.

She decided to write her first book entitled, “EXHUME OR HEAL, A WIDOW’S MEMOIR GETTING HER GROOVE BACK." It’s now available on Roses Life Coaching website and among many selling platforms like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, etc. Writing this book was part of her healing journey and it helped her to reset and get her groove back. In this book, she shares about the struggles that African and Indian widows face and how one can rise above their pain and thrive despite having been hurt, betrayed, abused, and cheated on. Her motto now is “Healing is a Choice,” because she had to decide to heal and move forward with her life. She is here to show other women that it's possible to heal, be empowered, connect and thrive where you are planted. With the help of her children and a passionately dedicated friend Maria. M. Mbanga Mazvimavi, who is now the President of the Board and Basil Mafara who is an advisor for Roses Life Women Center Foundation, which was formed in 2021.

The purpose of the Center is to deliver Holistic Services that position Minority Women to lead a better quality of life and contribute to a healthy community. The Centre works in close partnership and collaboration with other local agencies in our community. She decided to write her first book entitled, “EXHUME OR HEAL, A WIDOW’S MEMOIR GETTING HER GROOVE BACK.” It’s now available on Roses Life Coaching website and among many selling platforms like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, etc. Writing this book was part of her healing journey and it helped her to reset and get her groove back. In this book, she shares about the struggles that African and Indian widows face and how one can rise above their pain and thrive despite having been hurt, betrayed, abused, and cheated on. Her motto now is “Healing is a Choice,” because she had to decide to heal and move forward with her life. She is here to show other women that it's possible to heal, be empowered, connect and thrive where you are planted. With the help of her children and a passionately dedicated friend Maria. M. Mbanga Mazvimavi, who is now the President of the Board and Basil Mafara who is an advisor for Roses Life Women Center Foundation, which was formed in 2021.

“We acknowledge that our Center is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan people.”