by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Oct 13, 2020 | Covid-19, Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
What has changed since the start of the pandemic? We used to have sessions in schools, community dialogues and youth forums. Now, because of COVID-19, we cannot have a gathering of many people, and that has reduced the flow of information. The youths can still access...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Oct 8, 2020 | Female Empowerment, Global Health, Youth Empowerment
World Contraception Day (WCD) is an important family planning event that takes place on September 26 each year. Launched in 2007, WCD’s mission is to help drive awareness around the need for contraception, and to enable young people to make informed choices on...
by Jan Kreutzberg | Aug 12, 2020 | Female Empowerment, Global Health, Youth Empowerment
Today we celebrate International Youth Day, the theme of which is, “Youth Engagement for Global Action”. I find the timing of this theme extremely appropriate given the current global situation and the urgent need for more proactive measures to ensure young people’s...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Aug 12, 2020 | Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
To mark International Youth Day 2020, we are celebrating our four recent interviewees in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, all of whom are devoted to empowering youth and extending youth education on SRHR issues in their community. This year’s theme, Youth Engagement for Global...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Aug 4, 2020 | Covid-19, Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
Joyce Wanjiru, 29, is the current Miss Kibera, the annual contest held in Kibera to recognise young leaders in the community. She runs the Beyond the Scars mentorship programme where she talks to and mentors young people on sexual and reproductive health and rights...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Jul 29, 2020 | Female Empowerment, Global Health, Youth Empowerment
If you read our blog regularly, you will know that DSW is part of the Right By Her campaign, a consortium of eight partners working across Africa to improve the realities of women and girls in Africa in four key areas: gender-based violence against women (GVAW),...