by Brussels Communications | Oct 24, 2022 | Brussels, Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
“If you educate a girl, you educate a whole nation.” European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica, Oct. 10, 2022 Between October 10 and 14, three DSW youth champions joined the 10th edition of the European Week of Action for Girls (EWAG) in Brussels,...
by Esayas Meskel | Oct 6, 2022 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
Two important policy advocacy workshops were held by DSW Ethiopia in Bahir Dar and Jimma towns recently. The main aim of these advocacy platforms was to sensitize stakeholders on youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender policy framework. Now...
by Brussels Communications | Sep 26, 2022 | Brussels, Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
Every year, a coalition of European NGOs come together as part of the European Week of Action for Girls (EWAG) to amplify girls’ voices and call for girls’ rights to be at the core of the EU’s external action. This year, EWAG 2022, which is organised around the...
by Nduta Waweru | Sep 14, 2022 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
As DSW Kenya, we are proud to be the to-go-to organisation when it comes to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) programming for young people and adolescents in Kenya. For over 22 years now, we have been making sure young people are empowered to lead...
by Nduta Waweru | Jul 12, 2022 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
by Malemba Mkongo and Sandra Wekesa At the age of 15, Joyce Njeri* got pregnant after two months of meeting a 23-year-old man who promised to take her in as his wife. “I was in Class Seven when I met him. He asked me to be his girlfriend and after a few weeks of...
by Shane O'Halloran | Jun 17, 2022 | Advance, Empower, Enhance, Entrepreneurship, Female Empowerment, Foster, Uganda, Youth, Youth Empowerment
The ‘Providing Opportunities for Women in Entrepreneurship and Reproductive Health’ project, or quite simply POWER for short, is a brand new joint-initiative developed by DSW and our long-term partner in Uganda, Action for Health Uganda (A4HU). Starting this month and...