Current Programs
Current Program
SHE RISES
We are implementing this program in Nairobi County, our target population includes deaf youth aged 18 to 35, deaf single mothers, and parents of deaf children, with support provided by the Black Feminist Fund.
Currently, Kenya faces one of the most trying times for her people. Standards of living are extremely high; most Kenyans are unable to meet basic needs. In the post-COVID era, the perception of work has shifted and many are out of work.
This project aims at supporting the social and economic empowerment of the Deaf community especially vulnerable Deaf mothers and Deaf youth. We deal with issues of difficult socio-economic environments grappling the youth while promoting healthy relationships, and health-seeking decisions and practices.
In this project, we run an income-generating activity and teach jewelry making and beadwork to single Deaf mothers with low education levels. Deaf women with limited education are often left to suffer life in poverty and oppression.
We create awareness of the Deaf community, promoting Kenyan sign language and Deaf culture using storytelling as a tool to shift the social perception of Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. This especially targets parents and caregivers of Deaf children to encourage them to strengthen the capacity of Deaf children and promote early interventions.nWe organize youth engagements to engage them on the nexus of health and socio-economic status i.e. our mental health and sexual reproductive health and how it is influenced and affected by our socio-economic circumstances. While training them on skills they can use to generate income.
Current Program
I KNOW, I DECIDE
I KNOW I DECIDE targets a population consisting of deaf adolescents and young people aged 13 to 25 years in Kajiado, and Mombasa counties, with support provided by the African Women Development Fund.
Deaf Adolescents and young people often fall victim to manipulation and coercion due to lack of information. Undesirable health outcomes such as the triple threat; Early unintended pregnancies, Gender-based violence, and New HIV infections.
The project is structured to provide reliable information that focuses on clarifying and building strong values, promoting positive culture and attributes, and transforming attitudes among Deaf adolescents and young people to take up health-seeking behavioral practices in their sexual reproductive health and to promote their rights and freedoms to access information, services, and resources that they need.
CURRENT PROGRAM
COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS EDUCATION AND SERVICES FOR DEAF ADOLESCENTS
With this program, our target population includes deaf adolescents and youth aged 13 to 25 years, policymakers and implementers, and parents of deaf children, In Nyeri, Kiambu, and Nairobi counties, with support provided by Hivos.
Adolescent sexual reproductive health rights education and services for Deaf communities is close to nonexistent. The policy environment surrounding adolescent sexual reproductive health rights is marred with taboo perceptions that disempower adolescent from seeking services, information, and resources to support their sexual reproductive health.
Adolescents are engaging in risky behaviors and practices and are unable to seek support, there are very limited adolescent youth-friendly sexual reproductive health services. This is severely influenced by the support systems and stakeholders surrounding the adolescents and influencing their access. Providing reliable information and health care services goes a long way.
This project aims at empowering adolescents to engage in advocacy as well as decision-making by strengthening their capacity to recognize and articulate the challenges they experience as adolescents and contribute towards creating change.
This project provides accessible sexual education information for Deaf adolescents to make informed choices, lobbying policymakers and implementers to engage Deaf adolescents and Deaf communities to develop strategies that mitigate risks of the vulnerabilities of Deaf adolescent sexual reproductive health, promote inclusion and accessibility of sexual reproductive health care and services for Deaf girls and women using a human rights-based model and to empower parents of Deaf children to support and strengthen the capacities of their Deaf children.n
