Empowerment Hub for Teenage Mothers

100 Girls Initiative Progress Report

Year :2021

Cohort: 3

County: Homabay

Background

The 100 girls initiated is a program that was designed and implemented by Community Focus Group since March 2018 and has contributed a lot in the lives of teen mothers in Homabay county and other counties. The program’s main objective is to develop skills of teen mothers who have dropped out of school by imparting them with skills on hairdressing, tailoring, beauty, catering, basketry and jewelry making. The process and the training have brought a lot of changein the lives of teen mothers who have lost hope in life.

So far CFG has trained two cohorts in Homabay county from 2018 which included six participants from Homabay county.Homabay 2021 Cohorts In 2021 homabay selected 2 teen mothers to join the training on hairdressing at Elegance salon inOyugis town. They began their training on the 23rd March 2021 after their orientation by their instructor Pamela. Melvin and Sweery were grateful to join the skill development training after having a difficult experience as teen who dropped out of school.They joined the training on the 23rd March 2021 with no experience on hairdressing but with the zeal to learn and be productive participants. One of the girls joined when her self esteem was very low and it took her time to become social and start opening up due to traumatic experience.

This Is the work you supported us and was successful last year, we look forward to doing much more this year in transforming the lives of teenage mothers in Kenya.