Girl Child Network
GCN's organizational goal is to protect and promote the rights of the girl child and to support the economic, political, social and cultural empowerment of the girl child in order for her to assert those rights in the home, school and community. GCN mobilizes whole communities to eradicate patriarchal structures that dominate the home, school, and community so as to support the development of an enabling environment and to promote and protect the rights of the girl child GCN ensures girls at risk and most vulnerable to abuse are rescued and empowered to speak out and, through provision of safe shelter and strong referral to legal and medical aid, stand up to defend their rights. GCN supports and promotes girls to be in school and advocates for a violence free school environment so that girls get maximum benefits from education.
Objectives:
- Support individual transformation of girls through capacity building training in gender, HIV and AIDS, human rights, leadership and confidence building
- Ensure laws and policies that promote the reproductive, economic, social and political rights for girls are in place and fully implemented so as to minimize gender based violence
- Advocate and Lobby for total elimination of harmful cultural practices that impede the full development of the girl child
- Support girl child survivors of gender based violence and girls at risk through emergency rescue operations, provision of emergency safe shelter and referral to legal and medical aid and counselling services in partnership with other stakeholders so that the girl child realises her full potential
- Support and promote girls' access to education through the provision of school fees, sanitary ware, panties, exercise books and other basic needs to the orphaned and vulnerable girls
- Register household and social transformation in attitudes, beliefs and religious practices as far as they affect the girl child.
- Register media attitude change and gender sensitive reporting on the girl child
Contact:
Betty Makoni
Tel: +263-70-21509
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