Project Title: Health Empowerment Initiative
Project Overview:
Health
Empowerment Initiative seeks to bring health information and empowerment to
families in the Ilaje community of the Bariga local government, Lagos, with the goal of
reaching adolescent females with personal health and sexual health (STD
prevention) information for behavioral change, and reaching poor families with
preventive information and actions (distribution of long-lasting insecticide
treated nets) against malaria.
The
project will train 100 adolescent females aged 12 – 18 for four days on
personal health, sexual health and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases,
and on methods they can use to educate their peers and community on what they
have learned. The project will also provide adequate health information for
adolescent girls in the community through awareness programs, public addresses,
outreach program and community workshop where they will be able to interact
with their mothers. It will encourage behavioral change in personal health
through the provision of free sanitary towels for 300 adolescent females.
The
project will educate women in the community, especially young mothers and women
with children under age five, on malaria transmission and prevention, and the
proper use of long lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets (LLTNs).
Professional health practitioners and health workers will speak with the women
in the community, providing adequate information and answering questions to
ensure these women can protect their families against malaria. Prevention of
malaria infection amongst women will be encouraged by providing them with free
long lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets (LLTNs).
We
will work with youths in the community to perform proper environmental sanitation
as a preventive measure against malaria. We would also be working with
community leaders, private and non-governmental organizations, media (print,
radio, television, web), volunteers and also with music and film artists to
achieve our goal and spread the information on better health.
Goals:
To
provide adolescent girls with personal and sexual health empowerment for
behavioral change
To
provide women with preventive information on malaria for improved family health
Vision:
To empower female members of Ilaje community to be able to take
proper care of their health and their families, and to ensure that they are well-informed about their
sexual health. The project also strives to empower mothers in the community to pass on this
information properly to their children, preventing future generations against ignorance of basic sexual and health information.