Ladies are prone to many challenges posing in the society.
Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV/AIDS (Kelin) sought to address individual and societal barriers of access to services and justice among girls.
Kelin worked to ensure adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) have the information and autonomy to make decisions that would allow them to safely navigate their s3xual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Kelin designed activities that would first provide a safe space for girls to speak up, be heard and then be informed on their rights and supported to get justice for violations.
As a result, the mentored girls embodied the aspirations of the project, as DREAMS girls: Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe, who will be bringing hope to other girls in their communities, long after the project has ended
The project sought to reach 450 AGYW directly through capacity building, 15,000 indirectly through the distribution of sanitary towels.
15,000 men were engaged indirectly through football, radio campaigns, soccer clinics, tournaments, magnet theatre, and peer learning.
379 adolescent girls and young women were trained on sexual and reproductive health rights and HIV.
They were empowered to negotiate for safe sex, contraception and condom use; land and property rights and cultural structures for reporting sexual violations.
Sanitary towels were used to disseminate key messages on SRHR, HIV and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) through messages cards packaged in sanitary towel boxes distributed to over 13,000 girls in Kisumu and Homabay counties.