Girls Choose- End Child Marriages

14/04/2021

Call for Partnership

Development Agenda for Girls and Women in Africa Network (DAWA) is seeking to connect and grow a movement of girls and young women in the Eastern and Southern Africa region.


Are you an adolescent girl or young woman aged between the ages of 15 and 35 years?

Do you reside in eSwatini, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia or Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Madagascar, Botswana, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania?

Are you passionate about your health and overall wellbeing, gender equality, education, ending poverty and discrimination?

Do you have knowledge of and experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocacy?

Are you passionate about community development and keen to make a change?

Do you want to make a difference in other young people’s lives?
Are you interested in joining a movement of girls and young women to make a change?

If you said yes to the above, then this is for YOU

Please Click below

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Development Agenda for Girls and Women in Africa Network (DAWA) is seeking to connect and grow a movement of girls and young women in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Our approach is integrated, addressing gender equality, poverty eradication and education central to enabling women and girls....

14/04/2021

What is bodily autonomy?

https://www.unfpa.org/sowp-2021/autonomy

UNFPA State of World Population 2021

02/03/2019

Quiz

http://www.unaids.org/en/2019_ZDD_campaign/quiz

10/10/2018

Join the conversatin

16/05/2017

#MyPeriodMyPride Period with a Dignity. #MenstruationMatters

The process of menstruation is natural. There’s no human race without it. Yet most of us loathe talking about it. This enduring culture of silence creates an environment in which girls and women are denied their right to access menstrual health products, disposable facilities in schools including access to clean water to take care for themselves. On May 12, 2017, our Theater for Development conducted performance in Manyaira Secondary school (Marondera) addressing the issue of Menstrual Health as a public health issue. In attendance was the school authority, Girls Choose Smart Contraceptives Ambassadors, Community Behavior Change Facilitators and a total of 110 girls from the school. #IPADCAMPAIGN #AYESE2017 #NFYD #FKNORWAY #NFYD

25/04/2017

If in Harare join this wonderful event #MenstruationMatters #MyPeriodMyPride

08/03/2017

Celebrating #IWD2017 young women are bold, they will remain bold #BeBoldForChange

06/02/2017

Ensuring access to menstrual hygiene products. #My PeriodMy Pride #IPad-Campaign-SafeFlow

I PAD Campaign distribution of Sanitary Wear to girls in Marondera_Mahusekwa. #MyPeriodMyPride. #Safeflow

06/02/2017

Girls Choose- End Child Marriages's cover photo

06/02/2017

Girls Choose- End Child Marriages

18/07/2016

Vote | Global Youth Empowerment Fund

We value your Support. Please follow this link and vote for MyAge Zimbabwe Trust
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Please vote for My Age, nominated for the top 2016 Global Youth Empowerment Fund grantees! You may vote from July 16-22!
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18/07/2016

We value your Support. Please follow this link and vote for MyAge Zimbabwe Trust
https://JCI.fluidreview.com/vote/133684/
Please vote for My Age, nominated for the top 2016 Global Youth Empowerment Fund grantees! You may vote from July 16-22!
Thank you!
Please make sure after voting, click confirm voting

07/04/2016

This year's focus is on squatter camps, where we have most of the girls not going to school because of lack of and no access to proper, clean and safe sanitary towels. Girls and women are having to brave the risk of infection, sacrifice their dignity due to lack of one of the smallest yet so important commodity in a girl's life.

Help me change this by giving me a birthday gift of a pack of sanitary pads in 2016 as i dedicate this one to all the girls out there #deliverdelayeddignity #IpadCampaign #womanhood #menstruationmatters

For donations, gifts and presents contact 0763380694 on whats app or call

10/03/2016

Ending Child Marriage in Zimbabwe , My Age Zimbabwe holds Sports Galas and Solidarity marches in Masvingo Urban and Chivi.

02/03/2016

This is the Menu My Age Zimbabwe is serving young people, parents and guardians, community and religious leaders this Friday and Saturday. If you are in Masvingo and Chivi its free and you are all invited. Fill up Masvingo City for the #NoU18Brides Solidarity March on Friday, fill up Mamutse stadium for the #NoU18Brides Sports Galla. Fill up Chivi Growth point on Saturday!!
#EndingChildMarriageNow #NoU18Brides #GirlsLead #GirlsChoose #MyAgeZimbabwe #WeAreYoungPeople

08/02/2016

30 girls were trained to be advocates of #EndingChildMarriages, we believe in the empowerment of the girl child #GirlsChoose #Girlslead

03/02/2016

Community Engagement is important to #EndChildMarriages

20/01/2016

Zimbabwe BANS Child Marriages

Help us rejoice in Zim

Good news for Zimbabwe
Veritas Wins Court Case Against Child Marriage

Constitutional Court Decides Marriage under 18 Unconstitutional

The Constitutional Court this morning delivered its long-awaited ruling on child marriage. The application to outlaw child marriage succeeded. This is a great day for gender equality, women’s rights and children’s rights and the fight against poverty..

The court’s order was:

1. The Application succeeds.

2. Section 22(1) of the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11] is unconstitutional.

3. No person, male or female, in Zimbabwe may enter into any marriage, including an unregistered customary law union or any other union, including one arising out of religion or a religious rite, before attaining the age of eighteen (18).



This progressive decision is a mark that the Zimbabwe Constitutional Court is building up a body of constitutional jurisprudence which will also be quoted in other jurisdictions and should assist the Africa-wide campaign against child marriage.

Congratulations to the lawyer Tendai Biti who argued the case extremely well before the Bench of the Constitutional Court on January 14th 2015.

Well done to the applicants Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi for having the courage to describe their experiences of child marriage in affidavits for the court.

07/11/2015

Call for #endchildmarriagesummitharare2015 Papers and Presentations

Calp for Papers #EndChildMartiageSummitHarare2015

12/10/2015

9 year old forced to marry man 69 years her senior - NewsDay Zimbabwe

3 months after the launch of the AU Campaign on child marriages- this happens in Kenya and our governments remain silent....We Need to ACT NOW

Follow Singing and dancing as she performs in a school assembly, Younis looks for all the world like a typical Kenyan teenager, with a beaming smile and a grey and maroon uniform. CNN There’s little outward clue to the trauma she’s already been through in her 13 short years. When she was just nine y…

30/09/2015

'Criminalise child marriages'

'Criminalise child marriages'

A GWERU-BASED child protection support network is lobbying Parliament for the criminalisation of child marriages on the backdrop of alarming figures of girls marrying before the age of 18.

19/09/2015

Imagine if every young person would have the courage to do this...wont we End Child Marriage in Zimbabwe by 2015? Tag a Life International (TaLI) ROOTS Young People's Network - Get Engaged Young People Today. Time to Act Now. Sibusiso Ngamla Bhebhe Thabiso Nolly Sibanda My Age Zimbabwe Nyasha Phanisa Sithole Tino Hondo Tapiwa Hilary Gutu thank you for being the Champion

Friday 18 September the day I broke our tradition,I hijacked the Herdmen's meeting and discussed started discussing about how are they dealing with Childmarriages and teenage pregnances and it was fortunate for me that the herdmen loved the dialogue and urged me to come back again.
Thank you Nyama Village
#EndChildMarriages #NoU18Brides #WeAreYoungPeople #WeAreTheNation

01/09/2015

Youth organisations distribute free sanitary pads - Radio Dialogue

Youth organisations distribute free sanitary pads - Radio Dialogue

TWO youth organisations have joined forces to launch a menstrual hygiene management campaign to mobilise and distribute sanitary ware to women and girls in Bulawayo.

29/08/2015

Early Child Marriages is part of the agenda today. Its the the second day of the Southern African Regional Students and Youth Conference #SRSYC2015 Saywhat Organisation

04/08/2015

Indian victim of child marriage stands up for rights

Marriage at 11 months...Kuzvarira..do we still have this in Zimbabwe

Married at 11 months teenager seeks NGO s help and moves court to terminate her marriage

29/07/2015

Lets join the campaign

15 million girls a year are married before 18. That’s the equivalent of the population of Zimbabwe or Mali. A growing number of leaders across Africa are committing to ending the practice, but more needs to be done. Here’s how leaders can take action: #NoU18Brides

27/07/2015

#NoU18Brides This is the reality ....save the girl child

#NoU18Brides

19/07/2015

Religious Leaders have a role to play to End Child Marriage in Zimbabwe thumbs up to UNFPA-Zimbabwe for the efforts

Apostolic and Zionist Churches Bishops dialogue on child marriages taking place at Rainbow Towers with Bishop Ndanga - President of the ACCZ and the UNFPA Representative, Cheikh Tidiane Cisse.

17/07/2015

Girls Choose- End Child Marriages's cover photo

17/07/2015

The support of Church Leaders is needed to End Child Marriage in Zimbabwe.

Apostolic and Zionist Churches Bishops dialogue on child marriages taking place at Rainbow Towers with Bishop Ndanga - President of the ACCZ and the UNFPA Representative, Cheikh Tidiane Cisse.

17/07/2015

#EndChildMarriage #NoU18Brides 40% of girls in sub-Saharan Africa are married before the age of 18, depriving them of their health, education and the chance to prosper. If we don’t accelerate our efforts, the number of child brides in sub-Saharan Africa will double by 2050. #NoTimeToWait
Fact:15 million girls a year are married before 18. That's the equivalent of the population of Zimbabwe or Mali.

10/07/2015

The Junior Citizen

Today we had an interesting dialogue at Mamio trust located at Nduba Primary School and many thanks to SOS Children's Villages for the donation of 300 sanitary towels...... #menstruationmatters #DotYouthZim #iPADCampaign

02/07/2015

Twitter / ?

http://t.co/h9EH4Qy2Q0

"The support from the United Nations includes, but is not limited to, alignment of marriage laws, strengthening the child protection system to track, account and safeguard children from early marriage, social mobilization of communities to address negative social norms, enhancing girls’ retention in schools and access to skills development, and supporting decisive leadership and increased political will at community and national levels".

19/06/2015

#Endchildmarriage #noU18Brides #DAC2015

#EndChildMarriage Now!

It's exactly 24 hours before the #DAC2015 national commemorations and the opening session of the 2015-2016 Children's Parliament. Before the debate tomorrow, what do we have to say about Child Marriages and addressing the challenges affecting the girl-child? Let's join in the marathon discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #NoU18Brides and have our say!

#WeAreYoungPeople

07/06/2015

The Junior Citizen

This is what women and girls go through in our communities..... instead of medical help she got a beating.... #menstruationmatters