Women Advocacy Project

Using Soap to Empower Girls in Zimbabwe.

The project’s main goal is to empower around 100 poor young women and girls victims of child marriage, as well as those exposed to the risk of getting into one if not assisted.

Beneficiaries are selected from the list of the already trained young women single mothers and girls in WAP’s “Give us Books, Not Husbands” Clubs in the poor communities of Epworth, Chitungwiza, Eyrecourt and Waterfalls. The project provides them with tools – material to produce and sell all-purpose (“Clean Girl”) soap as there is a big market for soap in poor communities. This way, soap-making is used as a weapon to prevent child marriage and poverty.