40,000 Zimbabwean teachers trained to combat early marriage, teen pregnancies

Over 40,000 teachers across the country have been trained to tackle the growing issue of early marriage and teenage pregnancies in schools, following revelations that 3,368 learners dropped out due to...

Girls as young as 10-years-old are having babies in SA

Shocking statistics revealed recently that over 4,000 girls in the Eastern Cape have given birth in the past four months.The Eastern Department of Health (DOH) said 97 of these girls were aged...

US pours US$647,000 into anti-Zimbabwe NGOs' coffers

THE United States government, through the US embassy's Ambassador's Self-Help Programme, has provided US$647 000 to 19 civil society organisations across the country to undertake various empowerment p...

Mnangagwa's wife invited to Iran

IRAN's First Lady Dr Jamileh Alamolhoda on Saturday rolled out the red carpet for her counterpart Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, where the two exchanged notes on various issues including education, health, wo...

War on shocking teen pregnancies

SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tawananyasha (surname withheld) is six months pregnant with a man whose real name and age she does not know.The two met when the minor was a housemaid while the man was a gard...

Zimbabwe recording 80 000 abortions per year

ZIMBABWE is recording between 70 000 and 80 000 cases of abortions most of which are backyard procedures that put lives of women and girls at risk.This was shared Wednesday by My Age Zimbabwe ...

Organisations donate to teen mothers

150 packs of sanitary pads were donated to young mothers between the ages of 13 and 24 years from Hwange. The donation was made by Women Arise and Shine in partnership with Maternity and New Born Care...

Girl child still marginalised: Research

A local non-governmental organisation says early marriages and lack of information is affecting Zimbabwean girls in marginalised areas where cultural, religious and social beliefs take centre stage....