By Millicent Adhiambo Joash | Project Leader
This is a most needed intervention. The girls need to be more aware of who they are and also know their reproductive health. We are very excited to deliver this to the young girls of our community so as to fight disenfranchisement that has faced them over the years.
In the past, we offered 72 teenage girls Empowerment Workshop and reproductive health training and gave them sanitary towels and panties as well for two consecutive years. We couldn't manage to sustain all these due to limited funding. We only managed to meet a few girls, sampled from the two Girls' Clubs we had trained, to assess their growth in education matters and reproductive health matters. The girls exhibited great improvement in the said areas. They expressed themselves more openly and without fear than they did before. The girls were more aware of who they were and knew their rights.
We are very glad that we had taken them through the program and from the feedback we got from the sample of 10 girls that we met, it is evident that the girls are growing and are slowly kicking off the disenfranchisement disease out of their lives. We are excited to see them grow and to offer this opportunity to other girls who have not experienced this but really need it. Our only challenge is limited funding that has made us hault this program. We look forward to continue shedding this light in the community for a great future.
Thanks.
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