We are building boarding houses in Zimbabwe, creating safe places to sleep for girls
Safe place to sleep for girls: We want girls to have a safe place to sleep and are therefore building girls’ dormitories in Zimbabwe with Plan International and Stiftung Hilfe mit Plan. We explain here how these are equipped and what we achieve with them. Would you also like to support this cause and help us make safe places to sleep for girls in Zimbabwe possible? Then give a donation as a gift.
Safe place to sleep for girls – why it is important:
Many girls have to travel very long distances to get to school – they have to walk to villages farther away and then sleep somewhere near the school so that they do not have to walk straight back home again. Many of the girls then spend the night unprotected outdoors or in shelters; some stay in simple but unguarded accommodations – without anyone looking out for them and making sure that nothing happens to them.
This is known as “bush boarding”
To counter the practice of „bush boarding“, we are building girls' boarding houses at secondary schools. One boarding house can accommodate 45 girls. Each building therefore has seven dormitories with at least six beds, equipped with mattresses, pillows and bed linen.
In the girls’ dormitories, not only beds but also tables, chairs and electric light are provided for doing homework and reading.
In addition, each boarding house will have a reading room with tables, chairs and electric light. The kitchens of the boarding houses will be built outside the main buildings.
