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Welcome to Girl Child Network
Worldwide
“Brought up in our small village, I used to look at
myself like I am nothing. Thanks to you I finally saw the potential which was
inside myself—I am now studying Nursing and Paramedic and going to Oxford
university in September—I just want to say a big thank you to you and the Girl
Child Network Trust Zimbabwe.”
- Letter from a Zimbabwean girl to Betty Makoni, March 2009
In many countries today, girls lack the freedoms and rights that automatically accrue to boys. Discrimination toward girls mixes with the harsh realities of survival into a dangerous alchemy that prevents girls’ full development as human beings. In large numbers, girls are subject to sexual abuse and harassment, HIV/AIDS, domestic and military violence, trafficking into sexual slavery, and the denial of schooling.
Girl Child Network Worldwide believes that our empowerment model, built in Zimbabwe, having reached some 300,000 girls, can be applied in many places. It’s based on our experience that when girls receive fundamental support and encouragement from each other, gain an education, and learn their legal and human rights, they overcome a range of challenges, growing to fulfill their potential as human beings and as young leaders.
Girl Child Network Worldwide is the only organization to give general support funds to individual girls in communities where they lack the financial and human resources to mobilize and organize.
We are expanding our efforts to other countries. The UK will be the international hub of training activities and fundraising based on the successes we have achieved in Zimbabwe over the past decade. Chapters will emerge in other countries, beginning with Uganda.
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