Call for Zimbabwe Youth Community Champions (Bulawayo)

Are you aged between 15 and 30 years? Are you passionate about ending child marriage? Would you like to be recognized as a Youth Community Champion to #endchildmarriage?

The Rising Birds Project, with support from Women Deliver, is calling on Bulawayo youth from all fields (students, teachers, church-members, journalists, musicians, models, designers, pastors, entrepreneurs, volunteers, politicians, soldiers, police, drivers, and more)

Join the movement to end child marriage by becoming a recognized Youth Community Champion today. Tell us what you are willing to do to help end child marriage in your community, whether big or small. You can make a difference and we will help you make it.

 

SOURCE: End Child Marriage in Zimbabwe (facebook page)

YCCs will receive free training on ending child marriage and receive technical support and other resources to facilitate their activities. They will also be featured on our various social media platforms, and their work amplified globally through various global platforms.

Send us a written response (no word limit) answering the following questions:

1. Tell us about yourself (age, gender, location, occupation, skills, etc.)
2. What do you think is fueling child marriages in your area?
3. What are you willing to do to address this challenge?
4. How many people are you targeting to reach through your activity? (Number of males and females, and ages?)
5. In which area(s) do you plan to carry out your activity in?
Social media campaigns

• Enabling young mothers to return to school.
• Providing life-skills and livelihoods training for adolescent girls and boys.
• Engaging community members in dialogue on child marriage (churches, parents associations, traditional leaders)
• Building the capacity of young people to address child marriage in their communities.
• Engaging media houses to increase reporting on child marriage cases and issues.
• Creating community structures to support reporting and monitoring of child marriage cases.
• Creating audio and visual material as IEC on ending child marriage (documentaries, videos, posters, online banners, pamphlets, etc.)
• Engage policy makers (MPs) to amend laws on child marriage
• Conducting research on child marriage
• Writing blogs and newspaper articles on child marriage.
• Other (specify)

6. On what dates do you plan to carry out your activity?
7. Have been involved in any activities to end child marriage before? (Reducing teenage pregnancy, advocacy, peer     education, life-skills and livelihoods, etc),
If yes please describe briefly.

Submit your name and contact details and let us know what you plan to do to help end child marriage in your community? We encourage you to submit new ideas or ideas under development that have not been fully implemented yet.

Submit a short essay responding to the above questions to info@dotyouthorg.net or drop them off at SoulDeep Internet Café (inside Ruffcuts hair saloon), shop No.2 Nicoz House building, Cnr. 8th Ave and Fort Street.

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 22 July at 11:59pm CAT and this initial phase of the YCC campaign will run until the 30th of August 2015.