FACTSHEET: Children's welfare organisations in Zimbabwe - ZimFact
Ngoni Mhuruyengwe
April 12, 2021
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:
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
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
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
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
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]
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
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]
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]
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]
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
Focus area – increasing survival rate of children with cancer
6 Natal Rd, Harare
Tel number – +263 255 739
Focus area – child rights advocacy
Contact – Siqinisiweyinkosi Mhlanga
Sihazela Line Ward One
Tsholotsho
Tel number – +263 772525774
[email protected]
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]
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]
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
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
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]
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
Focus areas – feeding underprivileged schoolchildren
Contact – 33 Josiah Tongogara
Bulawayo
Tel number – +263 9 880 196
Focus areas – survival skills and food handouts to destitute children
Contact – Gadzamoyo Dewah – Director
131 Kaguvi Street
Harare
Tel number – +263 775 569 253
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]
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