Zimbabwe is in the midst of an HIV/AIDS pandemic, a pandemic that is aggravated by widely held belief perpetuated by Zimbabwe's traditional healers, that a man with HIV/AIDS would be cured by raping a virgin. Fuelled by her own tragic experience of being raped by her uncle when she was 6 years old, Betty Makoni set up the Girl Child Network, an organization that has been committed to rescuing girls from rape and abuse and facilitate a physical, emotional & spiritual renewal