by dswen | Apr 6, 2020 | Covid-19, Female Empowerment, Global Health, Youth, Youth Empowerment
DSW remains as strong and committed as ever towards ensuring that young people living in countries where we work have access to sexual and reproductive health and rights information, services, and supplies. However, we cannot escape the stark reality that COVID-19...
by Alejandro Alejandro Francisco Marrero | Mar 31, 2020
We focus on EU-Africa relations, advocating for a healthy and sustainable future free from poverty-related and neglected diseases thanks to global health research and innovation and where everyone can decide over their own body by securing sexual and reproductive...
by Collins Baswony | Mar 4, 2020 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
A DSW trained and supported mentor for young adolescents from Kilifi county with pupils. PHOTO/DSW 12-year-old Josphine* escaped being a child bride by the skin of her teeth in 2019. When her father passed on earlier that year, her brothers decided to end her...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 27, 2020 | Youth Empowerment
Oweki Rukia, a 17-year-old from Arubaine Village, Busia District in the eastern part of Uganda, is poised for greater things after surviving drug addiction and avoiding teenage pregnancy. Girls in Oweki’s neighbourhood and in other communities across Uganda navigate a...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 24, 2020 | Youth Empowerment
Ronald Nsubuga, a Youth Champion and Peer Facilitator from Kakubansiri Village, Mityana District did not believe he had the potential to stand in front of his peers and talk to them about SRH issues. He had little confidence in himself. But all this changed when he...