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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
What is HER Movement? who we are ? what we do?
In Tanzania the rate of students who
drops out from school due to unintended pregnancies (teenage pregnancies) has
increased from 18% to 21%, (according to UNFPA) this is attributed to the lack
of knowledge on sexual and reproductive and rights. Furthermore, the lack of
friendly infrastructure and services is another limiting factor that cause
teenage pregnancies among young girls. Most of these young girls shy away from
accessing the contraceptives in the healthcare centers due to the lack of
friendly services and environment thereof. Moreover, cases of Gender Based Violence
(GBV) have continued to be adamant in our societies, with increasing rate of
sexual abuse such as rape among adolescent girls and their inability to
negotiate safe sex, unintended pregnancies continue to be a high risk to their
health.
Many organizations have now stood up to
fight against sexual abuse to young girls as well as raise awareness on sexual
and reproductive health. However there is a need to be more creative and
introduce new innovative ideas on how to tackle the increasing rates of teenage
pregnancies among adolescent girls and young women in our communities. Moreover
there is a need of providing friendly services so that young people can be
comfortable when accessing the reproductive health services.
What
is Juliana movement (Her movement)
Juliana movement is Sexual Reproductive
Health (SRH) campaign that is initiated in the memory of the late Juliana, a
form 2 student who lost her life due to unsafe abortion from an unintended
pregnancy. The death of Juliana raised a lot of questions such what if Juliana
had the knowledge on reproductive health or if she didn’t feel shy to access
one of the contraceptives maybe her story would have been different.
It was from there that the campaign to honor Juliana
was developed to raise awareness to more adolescent girls on SRHR as well as
providing them with options such as contraceptives which we are packed in a unique package with Juliana’s name. This
campaign is expected to empower more adolescent girls to have knowledge on SRH
and the available ways to protect themselves from unintended pregnancies.it
aims to break the silence on issues around safe sex and sexual health in
general to ensure that these young girls are aware of the available ways to
protect themselves.
Activities
that are going to be done in the project
·
Providing sexual and
reproductive health education
·
Providing awareness on
gender based violence
·
Providing services
(contraceptives in a friendly way where by any young girl can access)
·
Call center where by
young girls can call and ask for more clarifications concerning sexual and
reproductive health. We are planning of having a USSD number which will be free
of charge for them to call or send message
Campaign
goals
-To ensure sure that adolescent
girls and young women have knowledge on Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH),
Gender Based Violence (GBV) as well as access to youth friendly services and
become SRH champions in their communities
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