Global Seed Grant Activity Board

[Hive Women] STANDING UP FOR GIRL' S HEALTH

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Tsoa Vonjimalala
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2020-08-15 15:50
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1.Project description

In her article on February 10th, 2020, Amanda Gibson said "These six facts about women’s health in Madagascar show that with one of the world’s worst poverty rates (over 75 percent[1]), women in Madagascar are struggling to maintain their health"[2]. Young girls life realities in our commune Ambovombe Centre, in Manandriana District would confirm her report and are supportive evidence to the existence of needs regarding women's health in our community. Thereby, through training sessions based on CSE or Comprehensive Sexual Education approach, the purpose of "Standing up for girls' health" project is to equip young girls in Ambovombe Centre with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to make informed decisions about their health, sexuality and lifestyle in order to improve their health. The project targets 90 schoolgirls age 12 to 25 old from the Commune of Ambovombe Centre. They will be gathered every Saturday for a 6hours CSE training session with facilitators, and will have a regular circle of friend (CF) meeting within the week between sessions. CF is a meeting between a CSE trainee and a friend of her choice in her village. It aims to share whatever the trainee received during the CSE training session as knowledge as skills. Both CSE training session and CF meeting will occur on July, August and September 2020. Participants will be divided in 3 cohorts. Trainee will be 90 schoolgirls within the 3 months.

2.Project progress up to now

The month of June was a preparing session for our team. The training started in July. We train 30 girls each month, split in Friday and Saturday class. Each class has 15 participants and study in two separate rooms of 7 and 8 girls. Up today, August 16th, we finish the training session for the July cohort with 30 girls (Yellow shirt) from 10 villages. The Circles of Friends of July cohort are now meeting regularly in their own village. The August cohort training is now on going with the second group of 30 girls (Bleu shirt) from 10 different villages.
Basically the training has:

• 4 themes: Women's identity, Humiliated women, Valued women, Me as a women.

• 4 lessons: Girls' right, Girls’ health, STIs/HIV, Gender Equality.

• and skills: cloth pad, crochet, computer.

3.Project plan forward

For the remaining time, we will finish the training session for August and September cohort and will continue to boost the CF meeting. The month of October is for monitoring and evaluation of the team and the project.

Up today there is no official case of COVID 19 in our area. The caution for us is to get ready to adjust our activities if the situation comes to change.