📣 Are you at #AfricaSkillsWeek2026 in Harare? 🇿🇼 Pass by the Plan International Zimbabwe stand at HICC to learn how we’re working to expand skills development and economic opportunities for young people, especially girls and young women. 📍 Come connect with us! #YouthEmployment

At 35, Sisasenkosi is a baker, poultry farmer, dressmaker, employer and mother of six. She has now employed 2 young women, supports her family and leads her ISAL group. “I encourage other women to continue working hard. We must not give up, even when business is slow.”

📣 Your voice matters! Are you aged 19–24 and passionate about making a difference? Applications are open for the Youth Sounding Board a platform to help shape programmes and amplify youth voices. 💙 Only 6 slots available! Apply by 28 Sept 2026. #YouthVoices #YouthParticipation

“The club helped me build my self-esteem and confidence because I was very shy.” — Rufaro, 17 Through the GEM Club, Rufaro found her voice, learned about children’s rights and gained the confidence to speak up against child marriage. #GirlsEducation #EndChildMarriage

#KnowYourAgeKnowYourRights #18 27 November is more than a date. It is a call to protect childhood. The International Day for the Elimination of Child, Early and Forced Marriage reminds us that every girl and every child deserves the freedom to learn, dream and choose their future

“Staying in school has helped me avoid child marriage.” 📚 Rufaro is pursuing her dream of becoming a chartered accountant and hopes to one day support girls who lack access to education. #BackToSchool #EndChildMarriage #GirlsEducation #LetGirlsLearn

“Life didn’t end when I came back from South Africa.” After 5 challenging years in South Africa, Anna* returned home to Chiredzi, Zimbabwe. Today, she is growing vegetables in a community garden, earning an income and providing healthier food for her family. #Resilience

Know Your Age Know Your Rights #11 #ChildRights #ProtectEveryChild #EveryChildCounts #EndChildMarriage #EndChildMarriageNow #GirlsRights

From starting over to thriving. 💪🏾 After returning home to Chiredzi in 2021, Either (29) joined an ISAL group through the KOICA-funded HDP Nexus Project. Today, she runs a tuckshop and internet business, supporting her family and strengthening her community. #WomenEmpowerment

Economic opportunities give young people more than an income they build confidence and independence. Through our Youth Economic Empowerment programmes, children and young people are gaining the skills and opportunities to build resilient livelihoods and shape brighter futures.

Young people in Chiredzi are turning skills into businesses and building brighter futures. Through the Sparking the Future of Youth & KOICA projects, partners are strengthening opportunities that promote economic independence, reduce poverty and child marriage.

#HappyTuesday Know Your Age Know Your Rights #8

Community members in a Bulawayo suburb accessed SRHR information, family planning services, referrals, and disability-inclusive support through a mobile outreach programme under the #BRAVE U'WILL project. #SRHR #CommunityHealth #Bulawayo

What is the price of a day without water? For millions of girls, it's a day without school, safety and dignity. This is their day. Everyday 👉 plan-international.org/middl…… No girl should have to choose between water and her future. #EverydayForHer #DayoftheAfricanChild

A child bride is a child in need of protection, not marriage. #KnowYourAgeKnowYourRights

Every girl deserves access to menstrual products, knowledge, support, and safe spaces to manage her period with dignity. 🩸 #MenstrualHealthDay #MHDay2026 #EndPeriodStigma

🌍🇿🇼🇩🇪 We are hosting young people from Germany in Zimbabwe under a Plan International Germany & Zimbabwe youth exchange initiative promoting cultural understanding, peer learning, and collaboration on gender equality (SDG5).

#SAGEMilestone! Through the ATL component of SAGE–TEACH, 5,657 marginalised adolescent girls accessed literacy & numeracy learning across 93 community hubs. Many had never attended school or dropped out due to early marriage, poverty & exclusion. 💙 #UntilWeAreAllEqual

Know your Age Know your Rights #2. The Constitutional Court Ended Child Marriage. #EndChildMarriage #KnowYourRights