by dswen | Jul 13, 2015 | Uganda, Youth Empowerment
On 12th July 1987 the world’s population reached the five billion mark. To acknowledge this, the United Nations designated this day World Population Day, to be observed annually. The commemoration of this day gives each UN member state an opportunity to take stock of...
by Howard Akimala | Jul 13, 2015 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Kenya joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Population Day on 11th July. This year’s celebrations were held in Narok County with calls on the 47 counties to develop policies aimed at ensuring the wellbeing of vulnerable sections of the community in...
by dswen | Jul 10, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Ok, let’s cut to the heart of the matter here. To the question that everybody wants to know – is our world population actually increasing? Short answer, no (at least, not really). But to really understand what is going on in world population, you will need the long...
by dswen | Jul 10, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Each year in July when World Population Day comes around, we at DSW like to take stock of the situation of the people living in some the world’s poorest countries. In particular, we want to see how the young men and women that we work with on a day-to-day basis in...
by Diana Shuma | Jul 8, 2015 | Tanzania, Youth Empowerment
Dr.Elizabeth Mapella,National Adolescent Reproductive Health Coordinator,Ministry of Health and Social Welfare(MoH&SW) presenting at the launch of FP2020. DSW in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare(MoH&SW) has launched the Family...
by dswen | Jul 7, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
We would like to share with you some of the amazing successes we have had with this programme over the past year. DSW established the Youth-to-Youth Initiative (Y2Y) in 1999 to address the needs of young people aged 10 to 24 in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya,...