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Betty Makoni is the director and founder of Girl Child Network with a 30,000 girl membership in Zimbabwe. The Network is working to eradicate all forms of abuse and other practices that impede physical, emotional and spiritual growth and developement of the girl child. She wants to insure that girls have full human rights and opportunities in education, training, advocacy, community development and health care. She was a secondary school teacher in the densely populated Harare suburb of Chitungwiza where she saw abuse of young girls and a high dropout rate. She created a girls' club to share stories, ideas and problems and find solace and solutions as a group. This grew to 500 girls' clubs in 49 of Zimbabwe's 58 districts creating the Girl Child Network that raises community awareness and lobbies government to protect girls. Her goal is to dismantle the link between culture and violence against girls and enable them to take charge of their own destiny. She had herself been raped at six by a man who raped numerous minor girls and was orphaned at nine by the death of her mother from domestic violence. The Network is allowing the girls to work toward full disclosure of widespread abuse and toward reform of the blatant gender inequality that has long existed. For creating a dynamic surge toward gender equality in Zimbabwe, Betty Makoni has been named Futuresaver of the Week. Click the links below for more information.
Links to other sites on the Web.
Betty
(United Nations Girls' Education Initiative)
Betty
(IDEX)
Betty
(Tapestries of Hope)
Betty
(THE WIP)