Gender Equality Kenya Project #32060

Life Skills Education to End Teenage Pregnancy

by Hope Foundation for African Women (HFAW)

Project Report | Mar 22, 2021
Mainstreaming Life Skills Education Through Radio

By Lancer Wao | Communications Officer

HFAW CHHRP, Gladys at Radio Vuna

Dear Friend and Partner

I hope you are well. Here at HFAW, we continue with the work of ensuring that the current and next generations are free from teenage pregnancies, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Gender-based Violence (GBV), and grow up to be economically empowered. While this initiative's nature continues to unfold, the effects are still the same-girls being left behind and subjected to more miseries.

Life skills education is an initiative that helps us engage the community (children, young adults, adults, and elderly) on the type of community we need and the skills and knowledge we need to achieve that. This month, we conducted a radio outreach talk show at Radio Vuna in Kisii to continue engaging the community members on the areas mentioned, especially those that directly relate to the progress of the girl-child like FGM, GBV, Teenage pregnancies, and Menstrual Health Hygiene.

Radio vuna, a 24-hour 7 days a week, station that directly reach 12 million listeners in Kisii and Nyamira who tune in per day, gave us a platform to continue calling for the end of FGM practice, sensitize the masses on the effects of GBV and protect the rights of children. Some of the questions we received during the live session include listeners wanting to know where to report when they see a girl at risk of FGM, how they can contribute to the end of GBV, the projects we are implementing to achieve this goal, and how they can join HFAW as volunteers.

The outputs of the radio outreach were impressive because they contributed to the larger goal of empowering the community. Through it, we successfully sensitized nearly 3 million people who directly tuned in and were empowered on how to end FGM, GBV, Child-abuse, teeage pregnancy, and mentrual health Management.

Dear Friend and partner, what would we do without you? Look at what we are able to achieve just because you continue to hold our hands and generously walk with us through this journey of transforming our community. We remain grateful. We encourage you to share this report with your friends and loved ones so that they can see the change you are making in our community.

HFAW CHHRP Gladys with the presenters

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Nov 19, 2020
Advocacy at Botana School, Nyamira

By Lancer Wao | Communications Officer

Jun 23, 2020
Covid-19 measures connected to Alarming Cases of Teenage Pregnancy in Nyamira and Kisii

By Lancer Wao | Communications Officer

HFAW CEO, Grace (right) and Nancy, radio presenter

Dear Partner and Friend

We hope you are safe and taking good care of yourself. The past few months have been tough for the whole world because of the Covid-19 outbreak. We continue to stand in solidarity with every person affected by Covid-19. We are hopeful that we shall come out of the pandemic stronger.

Here at Hope Foundation for African, we are grateful that you have chosen to support us in life skills education to end teenage pregnancy. Our advocacy programs are needed now more than ever given the saddening reports from local media that since the outbreak of Covid-19, 4,301 and 2,741 girls in Kisii and Nyamira respectively have been impregnated. Additionally, there are cases of increased cases of FGM in the region going by the media reports. The worrying trends is taking us back to where we began.

Over the past one month, we have done one media outreach where we spoke on local radio station on how the closure of schools has led to a spike in cases of rape, FGM, and child abuse in Nyamira and Kisii counties. We applauded children’s officers for warning parents on the need to supervise their children since there are equally increased cases of child negligence in Nyamira and Kisii. We emphasized that taking care of children is a shared responsibility which all members of the community should be willing to take. Also, we spoke on the worrying trends of young girls being wooed by gifts in exchange for sex. We reached at least seventy thousand listeners. Although we would love to conduct the media outreach more frequently, we cannot because of challenges in facilitating the program. Nevertheless, we are highly appreciative that we can do even one outreach. The audio clip of the interview can be found here

Dear partner and friend, no amount of words can ever describe our gratitude towards your generosity and love for our community. You have been supportive. This is encouraging and motivating. Kindly consider sharing this project with your friends and family so that they can see the impact you are making in our community. Stay safe.

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