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Strong Girls Strong Zambia
The campaign aims to reduce child marriage from 29% to 5% in World Vision Zambia’s areas of operation by reaching and empowering 15,000 girls both retrieved from child marriages and those at risk to live safer, healthier, more productive lives by 2025.
World Vision Zambia's Strong Girls Strong Zambia Campaign aims to support girls retrieved from child marriage and those at risk. The goal of the campaign is to reduce child marriage from 29% to 5% in World Vision Zambia’s areas of operation by reaching and empowering 15,000 girls both retrieved from child marriages and those at risk to live safer, healthier, more productive lives by 2025.
The campaign duration is from October 2022 to September 2025 and aims to raise $8 million over the five year period.
With high rates of child marriages in Zambia, currently estimated at 29%, many children continue to experience:
- Multiple violations of children’s rights,
- Limited or no education and
- Limited economic opportunities.
The campaign will provide practical and sustainable solutions through education support of girls who are retrieved from marriages and those at risk of the vice, for a successful fight against child marriage.
It Takes a World to End Violence Against Children
In 2015, World Vision International (WVI) launched a global campaign dubbed “It takes a world to end violence against children.” aimed at ending violence against children
This campaign is woven within the framework of WVI’s Christian identity that states that violence against girls and boys is a violation of the life God desires for every child
In 2017, World Vision in Zambia contextualized the campaign by adopting the theme “ending child marriage” in line with the Government of the Republic of Zambia’s recognition of its negative effect on both the individuals and their communities, if left unchecked.