Climate Change and Poverty: Coping Strategies Adopted by Female-Headed Households in Zimbabwe

The health-related impacts of climate change faced by in-school adolescent girls in rural Zimbabwe

“…The location of the study area -Ward 25 of Chivi District -is also precarious as it is along the major Harare-Beitbridge Road, with increased presence of long-distance truck drivers who are notorious for luring adolescent girls and young women with money food in exchange for sex. Dzvimbo, Ncube, Zhanda & Mutanana (2022) note that female headed households in Zimbabwe are adopting coping strategies which perpetuate the inter-generational transfer of climate induced poverty including offering domestic services and vending of fruits and vegetables (Dzvimbo, Ncube, Zhanda, & Mutanana, 2022). The adolescent girls reported that because their parents, caregivers or guardians will be so far away, there will be no one to care them when they fall sick and/or to meet their other emerging needs, and sometimes they will have no means to call their parents.…”