WAP Working Hard to End Child Marriage

The Women Advocacy Project (WAP) has been hard at work this year to end child marriage in Zimbabwe. In the last few months, they have held a soap making training and a child marriage abolition campaign.

Soap Making Training

In September, WAP launched a soap making training for 30 girls. The purpose of the program is to economically empower the girls and resist the families’ pressure to marry them. Utilizing the donations from Rockflower and the Advocacy Project (AP) and a grant from Germany, a professional was hired to run the training sessions and supplies were purchased. “Clean Girl” soap is a household detergent The soap is sold by 5 girls at local “Tuck Shops”. Read more on the project through AP’s Global Giving campaign report.

Child Marriage Abolition Campaign

For International Day of the Girl (observed on October 11, 2019), WAP held a Child Marriage Abolition Campaign. The day was full of testimonies, activities, and speeches, including one given by the Provincial Head of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprise Development. WAP ended with a call to action in abolishing child marriage and greater investments to improve girls’ education and economic empowerment.