Girl Child Rights

Girl Child Rights (GCR)

Girl Child Rights (GCR) is a Mozambican NGO headquartered in Chimoio town, Manica Province, and was founded in 2008. It envisions a world where Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) have larger freedom of choice, expression and movement.

GCR’s mission is to improve the condition of the girl child through empowerment, knowledge, greater access to quality health, social and protective services. GCR’s work focuses on HIV prevention and treatment services, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) prevention, response and reporting. Their advocacy focuses on Menstrual Hygiene and Ending Child Marriage.

Central Mozambique is a focal point for GCR’s work, which covers the Manica, Sofala and Zambezia provinces. It is one of leading organizations campaigning for free provision of sanitary pads and ending child marriage in Mozambique and in the Sub region.

Since 2014, GCR has reached over 200,000 AGYW in poor and vulnerable communities of central Mozambique with various services like School re-integration, HIV and TB education, prevention and treatment child rights education, life skills, GBV screening prevention and response, comprehensive education on SRHR, and PSS.

GCR is part of national and regional networks like SRAN, NAIMA+, Sub Regional Hub on SRHR+ and National Civil Society Platform (PLASOC).

Find out more about Girl Child Rights on their website and on Facebook.