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Zet Blog: Rafiki Site Visit November 2019
If you are a girl born in Zimbabwe, the opportunities available to you in life can be very limited. Faced with a long history of gender inequality grounded in cultural and religious attitudes, boy children are given preferential treatment over girl children in terms of education. Girls…
ZET Blog: Child Marriage and the Girls Summit
Please note, this articularly originally appeared on the DFID website, and was written by Lakshmi Sundaram, the director of Girls Not Brides. Working on a taboo subject can be isolating and demoralising and, as evidenced by the experience of some Girls…
ZET Blog: Zimbabwe Election Predictions
Please note: this article was originally written by Kurt Davis Jr, an investment banker working in economies across Africa, for the website Moguldom. The sharing of this article is not an endorsement of his views or a comment on the…
ZET Blog: UNICEF Zimbabwe Education Plans
Zimbabwe’s education system, once arguably the best on the continent, has been deteriorating over the past 10 years and has been seriously affected by the declining financial assistance to the sector. In the absence of significant national government financing, which…
ZET Blog: A History of Rafiki Girls Centre
Rafiki means friend in Swahili, and that’s exactly what Rafiki Girls Centre is. A friend to disadvantaged girls, offering empowerment and opportunity through education and training. Throughout Zimabwe’s history, the girlchild has been the most vulnerable – under pressure to…
ZET Blog: Child Abuse and Child Protection in Zimbabwe
Our longest-standing partner, Trinity Project, has recently expanded their work to focus on all aspects of child rights and child protection, beyond just access to legal identity documents. This involves a number of new exciting projects aimed at: improving and…
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