Below is the full description of the achievement of Top ICT Civil Society/NGO of the year award winner, Childline Zimbabwe. The text has been posted here unedited.
Childline Zimbabwe’s core function is to provide children with counselling services via the telephone. This ICT basis forms the foundation on which all awareness raising is conducted. Through promoting the toll-free 116 crisis line, Childline is promoting the use and access to ICT for all children across the country. Childline raises awareness of ICT’s through various means.
Childline has been printing various articles raising awareness of Children’s Rights in the local printed press in various vernacular. Childline undertakes advocacy activities at community level in schools, churches, community halls, etc to raise awareness on the use of ICT’s in breaking the silence on Child Abuse.
Project Beneficiaries
All Children in Zimbabwe, with specific focus on counselling services to children who have been sexually, physically, and emotionally abused and neglected. These include the most vulnerable children in Zimbabwe, those living with HIV and AIDS, child headed households, those children who are caring for sick relatives, children out of school and not accessing an education, children who have been trafficked, migrant children on the move, incuding unaccompanied minors, children living and working on the streets and children involved in the worst forms of child labour.
You can click the links below to read achievements by the other winners of Zimbabwe ICT 2010 Achievers Awards:
ICT Company of the Year: Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
ICT Businessman of the Year: Douglas Mboweni
ICT Businesswoman of the Year: Rudo Mudavanhu
ICT Journalist of the Year: Mqhele Tshuma
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Good for them. Kubatana (www.kubatana.net) with their innovative portal, microblog, and dail-up radio station providing information on the NGO community, legislative updates, and socio-political-economic developments in the country would have been an obvious contender.