About Us
We focus on identifying barriers and providing interventions as follows.
Child Education (Child Protection)
- Physical violence (the majority of young people 6 in 10 females (59%) and 7 in 10 males(68%) experienced physical violence)
- Sexual violence (among 18-24 years of age, 1 in 3 females (35%) and I in 6 males (17%) experience sexual violence).
- Bullying violence (almost every child goes through bullying in school)
- Emotional violence (among 18-24 years of age, 1 in 3 experience some form of emotional or verbal violence)
Interventions include:
- Starting and empowering school clubs
- Empowering scripture unions (preaching against and condemning bullying)
- Negative perceptions about educating female children
- Early child marriage
- Early sex indulging among boys
Interventions include:
- Promoting and advocating for girls’ attendance, retention, and completion of their education
- Education on the harmful effects of early sexual indulging
- Education and sensitizing on the harmful and illegal effects of child marriage
- Speaking to parents, teachers, students, and the community on sexuality
- Lack of access to basic needs
- Students walk long distances to schools and arrive exhausted
- Go to school barefoot and on empty stomachs
- Living conditions result in students’ poor sleep
- Subjects students to child labor
Teenage pregnancies. (Interventions for teenage pregnancies, Fighting Child marriage, Concept of reproductive health, Mindset change).
Interventions include:
- Economic strengthening
- Initiating Layer Poultry Farming (we give each child a local hen and a cock)
- Giving scholastic materials, clothes, and other support for a short term (first year only)
Youth livelihood (Community Project)
Interventions include:
– Mindset change
– Encouraging skills and talent development
– Encouraging vocational studies
Empowerment of women and young, single mothers (Livelihood Community Project)
Interventions include:
– Financial empowerment (financial literacy, agriculture, crafts & small trade clubs)
– Providing mama kits, and clothes to single and vulnerable mothers, as well as HIV-infected mothers (short term)
– Nutritional training/studies, and providing resources to grow vegetables and fruits (for consumption and selling)
