FACTSHEET: Children’s welfare organisations in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe police and rights organisations have been urging citizens to ensure children’s welfare and safety is not compromised in a world struggling with Covid-19 lockdowns, which have seen a rise in gender violence and child abuse.

The following are some of the organisations in Zimbabwe dealing with children care, rights and development issues:

  1. Childline Zimbabwe

Focus areas – to stop child abuse and provide a safe environment for all children

Contact details – 6 Roscommon Rd, Eastlea

Harare

Tel numbers – +263 242 746 785

WhatsApp – +263 716 116 116, +263 732 116 116

Freephone – 116

  1. Girl Child Empowerment Zimbabwe

Focus areas – sexual health and justice for marginalized girls, care and support for girls with disabilities, use of ICTs to empower girls and ensure they get equal opportunities.

Contact – Tatenda Maphosa- Director

2 Huge

Court Street, Masvingo

Tel number – +263 779 526 103

  1. Mavambo Trust

Focus areas – healthcare – including HIV/AIDS – and education for orphans, capacity building and economic empowerment

Contact – Donald Gomwe

Tel numbers – +263 242 493 990, +263 242 493463

[email protected]

www.mavambotrust.org.zw

  1. Zimbabwe Care (ZIMCARE) Trust

        Focus areas – care of and education for children with intellectual challenges

       Contact – Chipo Marufu – Administrator

       4 Drummond Chaplin, Milton Park

       Harare

      Tel number – +263 774483 221

  1. Shamwariyemwanasikana

       Focus areas – support and protection of the girl child, psycho-social support for victims of abuse,              providing safe haven for girls who would have been abused

       Contact – Ekeniah Chifamba – Director

       47 Harare Drive

    Marlborough

    Harare

    Tel number – +263 242 724 027

    [email protected]

  1. Farm Orphan Support Trust (FOST) 

Focus areas – support for vulnerable and orphaned children in farming communities; community-based care, kinship care and foster care for children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Contact – Blessing Mutama – National Director

1 Adylin Rd, Marlborough

Harare

Tel numbers – +263 242 309800, +263 772 819 615

  1. Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) Zimbabwe

       Focus areas – support for girls to go to secondary school covering needs including school fees, uniforms, sanitary wear, stationery, bicycles, boarding fees and disability aids

       Contact – 26 Campbell, Pomona

       Harare

       Tel numbers – +263 242 886676/ 677

      [email protected]

  1. SOS Children’s Villages

       Focus areas – providing access to basic health care and homes to children unable to stay with their parents

       Contact – 27 Mon Repos Building

       Newlands, Harare

       Tel numbers – +263 242 746451-3

       [email protected]

  1. Care at the Core of Humanity (CATCH)

Focus areas – helping children in need of legal aid, psych-social support and rehabilitation

Contact – 1775 Clara Rd, New Marlborough

Harare

Tel numbers – +263 242 300531

+263 773 754 032

[email protected]

  1. Save The Children Zimbabwe

Focus areas – child poverty, child rights, governance, education, health and nutrition

Contact – 221 Fife Avenue, Harare

Tel numbers – +263 799 977, +263 772 241 35

  1. Kidzcan

Focus area – increasing survival rate of children with cancer

6 Natal Rd, Harare

Tel number – +263 255 739

  1. Orphans Friends and Community Development Trust

Focus area – child rights advocacy

Contact – Siqinisiweyinkosi Mhlanga

Sihazela Line Ward One

Tsholotsho

Tel number – +263 772525774

[email protected]

  1. Justice for Children Trust

Focus areas – access to justice for children, legal aid, legal education, research documentation and advocacy

Contact – 66 Blakeway Drive

Belvedere

Harare

Contacts – +263 242 778 474, +263 719 560 164

[email protected]

  1. Zimbabwe National Council for the Welfare of Children

Focus areas – advocacy and capacity building for member organisations

Contacts – 83 Bishop Gaul Avenue, Milton Park

Harare

Tel numbers – +263 242 741 639, +263 771 585 142

[email protected]

  1. Child Protection Society

Focus areas – protection and promotion of the well-being of vulnerable children

Contacts – Cnr Herbert Chitepo Ave/Snowdown Road

Belvedere

Harare

Tel – +263 242 710 024, +263 242 708 829

+263 86 7700 4815

  1. Hope World Zimbabwe

Focus areas – improving the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children

Contact – Sharon Benza – Programme Officer

Rutendo Community Hall

Mufakose

Harare

Tel number – +263 773 653 551 

  1. Plan International Zimbabwe

Focus areas – ensuring quality and inclusive education for all children especially girls, skills training, protection of children from violence and abuse

Contact – 7 Lezard Avenue

Milton Park

Harare

Tel numbers – +263 867 700 0201

[email protected]

  1. Child Life Empowerment

Focus areas – improvement, promotion and protection of children’s lives

Contacts – Charles Chaitezvi – Chairman

Tel number +263 776692 607

Themba Simela – Secretary +263 785 453 812

  1. Childcare Ministries

Focus areas – feeding underprivileged schoolchildren

Contact – 33 Josiah Tongogara

Bulawayo

Tel number – +263 9 880 196

  1. Gadzamoyo Street Children Foundation

Focus areas – survival skills and food handouts to destitute children

Contact – Gadzamoyo Dewah – Director

131 Kaguvi Street

Harare

Tel number – +263 775 569 253

  1. Girl Child Network

Focus areas – promoting girls’ empowerment, providing safehouses for girls in crisis

Contact – 131 Duri Zengeza 4

Chitungwiza

Tel number +263 775 849 428

[email protected]

www.gcnzim.org

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