READ THIS FIRST. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, please get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic immediately. If you are in crisis, consider these helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide. The lines listed below are children's, women's and gender-based-violence lines.
Crisis numbers in Zimbabwe
- Childline Zimbabwe, 116, for children: Tel: 116 | WhatsApp: +263 719 116 116 | WhatsApp: +263 732 116 116 | Tel: +263 242 252000, head office landline. | Tel: (0292) 880052, Bulawayo.
- Youth Advocates, 393, for young people: Tel: 393; the organisation's call widget labels this "393 CALL FREE". | Tel: 0777 469 107 | WhatsApp: +2630777469107; this is the number exactly as Youth Advocates publishes it, and it keeps the national trunk zero after the country code. In that form it will not connect from outside Zimbabwe. We have not altered it, because it is what the organisation prints on its own page. If you are calling from abroad and the WhatsApp number does not work, the local number above is the one to try.
- Musasa, for women and girls facing violence: Tel: 08080074, Econet. | Tel: 08010074, NetOne. | Tel: 0731080074, Telecel. | Tel: (0242) 706284, office line.
- Adult Rape Clinic, for survivors of sexual violence: Tel: 08080472; the clinic labels this "24-Hour Toll Free Line", and prints it as "Free for Econet". | Tel: 0775 672 770; the clinic marks this one as working on all networks. It publishes nothing about what a call to it costs. | Tel: +263 242 793572 | Tel: +263 775 672 770 | Tel: +263 733 406 292
- National Gender-Based Violence Call Centre, 575: Tel: 575 — the National Gender-Based Violence Call Centre. | Tel: 08080544 — Victim Friendly Unit, from Econet. | Tel: 08010149 — Victim Friendly Unit, from NetOne. | Tel: 0735342874 — Victim Friendly Unit, from Telecel.
- Not a local line: helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide
- All crisis lines in Zimbabwe
