Hazviperi Betty Makoni is a Zimbabwean women's rights activist who in 1999 founded the Girl Child Network, a charity which supports Zimbabwe's young sex abuse victims.
Orphaned as a child and sexually abused,[3] Makoni is the principal subject in the documentary film, Tapestries of Hope.
She was forced to raise herself alongside five siblings by working at a mission school.
[2] Many regional country's organizations have replicated the model implemented by Girl Child Network.
[4] In 2007, Makoni won the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child.