Mirriam Cele initiated the Gozololo Organisation along with a group of volunteer women. Mirriam spent 17 years as a community and development worker and was employed by the Diakonia Council of Churches in that capacity. She is the recipient of many accolades, amongst them, the Martin Luther King Peace Award the Paul Harris Award (by the Rotary Club), the eThekwini Mayor's Awards in 1999 and the 2004 Fair Lady Claims Eau Dynamisante Woman of the Year Award recognition