Girls and Women Empowerment Network

About Girls and Women Empowerment Network

Girls and Women Empowerment Network (GWEN) is a community-focused organization that supports and provides for the empowerment of adolescent girls and young women.
GWEN makes efforts to empower adolescent girls and young women in all spheres of life in ways that respect the law to promote protect and provide for girls and young women in Zimbabwe. Focusing on eliminating factors that increase girls’ and young women’s vulnerability and prevent them from enjoying their full Human and constitutional rights. These factors include among others poverty, physical impairments, Gender-Based Violence, and discrimination. Its formation was necessitated by the numerous challenges vulnerable adolescent girls and young women face at school, at home, at work, and in society with the lack of safe places for adolescent girls, women including those escaping domestic violence, and the absence of means to access safe places and protection services worsening the situation.