Mentorship and Safe Space for Girls

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    Safe Spaces for girls are safe, trusted and friendly environment where young girls, adolescent girls and young women meet to share, learn, interact and energized with each other. Girls Safe space has a membership of 20-30 girls and is set up and led by a trained girl mentor. The mentorship sessions are conducted weekly in safe spaces with adolescent girls and young women where they are able to reveal the violence and other challenges related to Sexual Reproductive Health and inequalities occurring in their communities. These sessions serve as a structure for adolescent girls and young women to also report on their peers who have gone into child marriages. Mentors and mentees are selected from local communities and the approach ensures  the most vulnerable girls are prioritised. This included girls with disabilities and other minority groups.   

    The safe space mentorship sessions feed into already existing community youth peer groups and are very sustainable as part of the existing community structure. The Safe space model has been embraced by the traditional leadership and is also attached to the mother groups and is seen as part of the referral pathways for GBV survivors. One emerging practices that is now being developed is sustainability through the Survivor Fund, which allows survivors to use funds for economic empowerment activities such as joining Village Savings and Loans. Interest rates have been be used to help generate more income – as well as other activities to ensure resources to keep sustaining the Safe Spaces beyond project ends.

    You can support a girl to become a mentor and make a difference in her community.

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