Zimbabwe is a poor country and ranks 108th out of 127 countries in the 2024 Global Hunger Index. Almost a third of children under the age of 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition. In 2024, the global price, energy and food crises in Zimbabwe contributed to an inflation rate of as much as 635.3 %. Access to education and nutrition is thus once again becoming a privilege.
In Zimbabwe, we have been continuously committed to children, adolescents and young adults since 2017, in cooperation with Stiftung Hilfe mit Plan and Plan International.
Previous support in Zimbabwe
In rural areas, we support young people and young adults who have dropped out of school or are at risk of early marriage. We provide them with vocational training and entrepreneurial training in agriculture. Thanks to this economic empowerment, they can generate income and become more resilient to hyperinflation and crises. With the help of practical training, they gain experience and learn professional knowledge and skills that they can successfully apply in income-generating activities such as banana production, beekeeping, fish ponds with fish farming and poultry farming. Start-up support helps them to establish their own source of income. This gives them the opportunity to finance their own livelihoods.
Girls Empowerment Movement
Alongside vocational support, since 2021 we have been focusing specifically on girls to prevent gender-based violence and enable girls and women to have equal access to education and income. To this end, we have extended our commitment in Kwekwe by another year: There, we fight for women’s empowerment on different levels and raise awareness of child marriage and early marriage. We inform both adolescents and parents and adult community members in order to extend protection for children at risk of marriage.
The commitment is made up of various sub-projects:
- Promoting positive parenting: Educational work in parent groups that actively involve men as well.
- Commitment against child marriage: Organising a forum for parents who work together to oppose child marriage.
- Raising awareness in the community: Information events in youth clubs and schools to raise awareness of the risks of child marriage.
- Empowering girls: Support through the GEM Club “Girls Empowerment Movement” to promote the hopes, dreams and future prospects of its members.
- Exchanging with community members: Promoting dialogue and cooperation within the community.
FOR EMPOWERMENT AND AGAINST CHILDHOOD
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