Under the projects titled Enhancing Child Protection Systems and Empowering Adolescent Girls and combating the problems of Substance Abuse and violence against children in Dzivarasekwa (Pilot Project) supported by Oak Foundation.

Dzikwa Trust Fund is empowering 60 adolescent girls and young mothers through skills training. The Project Manager Alouis T Sagota said that the objective of the initiative is to empower school dropout adolescent girls and young mothers with self-help skills and enhance their agency through women rights training.

This Out of School Sisterhood initiative is targeting vulnerable adolescent girls who dropped out of school due to several reason that include lack of financial support, discrimination, early or premature marriages among other reasons. Adding to that, girls are also equipped with Entrepreneurial Skills, Management of Small Businesses,   ICT basic skills and those who are excelling in computers are given an opportunity to proceed and to do ICDL Certificate. Currently 30 girls are under sawing training and two industrial machines were bought to leverage domestic machines for efficient training.

Interactive sessions and workshops are also conducted through which beneficiaries acquire knowledge on Sexual Reproductive Rights, Advocacy against GBV and have time for sporting activities.

This project comes after the realisation that girls who drop out of school end up adopting harmful life coping mechanism ending up in a cycle of poverty. Idleness push them into premature marriages and in worse circumstances school dropout engage into dangerous survival options such as prostitution, abusing drugs and harmful substances. Dzivarasekwa is among urban townships that are known through research to be dangerous places for adolescent girls who end up targeted for sexual exploitation and abuse.