Girls’ Empowerment Network | GENET

The organization’s mission is to promote and advocate for economic, social, and emotional well-being of girls and young women and to influence positive social transformation. GENET’s pioneering approach has successfully advocated for the passage of local bylaws prohibiting child marriage, and the implementation of stiff penalties for those who perpetuate the practice. The organization has also been active in developing … Read More

Foundation for Community Support Services | FOCUS

The organization’s mission is to improve the sexual and reproductive health of youth, women, and other vulnerable groups, including commercial sex workers. In collaboration with Let Girls Lead, FOCUS works to lobby members of parliament in Karonga District to raise the legal marriage age from 14 to 18 by revising the Marriage Act.

The Ecumenical Counselling Centre

The Ecumenical Counselling Centre works to improve the psycho-social wellbeing of vulnerable groups such as persons living with HIV/AIDS, orphans, women, and elderly. It provides psychosocial support through training, counseling, and advocacy which empower and enable people of these vulnerable populations to make their own decisions, rather giving them specific advice in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Development Broadcasting Unit of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation | DBU / MBC

DBU is a semi-autonomous arm of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation that focuses on development communication. Their major role is to contribute to the national development through a participatory communication approach with the goal of ensuring national dialogue around development issues, including issues related to HIV and AIDS, and emphasizes behavior change.

Creative Centre for Community Mobilization | CRECCOM

CRECCOM is based in Zomba City in the southern region of Malawi. The organization’s mission is to empower individuals and mobilize communities so that they can advocate for their human rights, particularly focused on young mothers returning to school.

Chilimba Women & Orphans Care Group

Chilimba’s mission is to support orphans and HIV/AIDS-affected families by providing food, school fees, home-based care, and counseling. They also address behavior change at the community level around traditional initiation practices that negative impact adolescent girls.

Touching Humanity In Need of Kindness | THINK

THINK focuses their programs on rehabilitation and reintegration, child protection, prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual and gender based violence, early childhood care and development, sexual and reproductive health for adolescent girls, advocacy, economic empowerment of market women, elimination of gender based violence in Liberia. See this video for a spotlight on their programs.

Save Lives Liberia | SLL

Save Lives’ mission is to address the needs of women and children through women’s empowerment, advocacy, youth development, health, agriculture, gender equality, and good governance. In collaboration with Let Girls Lead, Saves Lives Liberia is working to reduce child and forced marriage, which disproportionately affects adolescent girls in rural Liberia.