By Gillian Wilson | Communications Director, IDEX
Girl Child Network reports many successes since their last update. Despite Zimbabwe’s many political and economic challenges, GCN courageously continues their work.
With help from supporters like you, not only is GCN able to help educate girls, but GCN has rescued 26 girls from physical and sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and child labor abuse. They carried out 39 home visits to follow up with abusive cases. Girls were also provided with psycho-social support.
The dedicated staff members work closely with social welfare, police and courts on the sexual abuse cases and since our last update, have reported a total of 22 sexual abuse cases to authorities. Among the cases reported, 2 cases resulted in 10-15 years of jail time 4 cases resulted in over 15 years of jail time.
They continue outreach to communities in warning and cautioning parents and guardians about child abuse, encouraging parents to honor the rights of the girls, and encouraging parents to ensure security and protection of children.
GCN is also in the process of conducting a study of sexual child abuse cases that have gone through the Hwange Magistrate Courts between 2008 to 2009- the goal is to critically analyze the judgments given to the perpetrators of sexual child abuse.
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