Health

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights education

SAFEGUARDS PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, MENTAL, AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING.

Sexual and Reproductive health and Rights (SRHR) is a big concern in Rwanda community
including in rural areas where due to poverty and lack of infrastructure and activities to occupy
youth meaningfully, especially girls, most of them become victim of early unplanned pregnancy
and other undesirable circumstances. On the other hands, Club Rafiki health services conduct a
regular adolescent education on SRHR in a weekly basis, here at the youth center in
Nyamirambo and in the rural areas of Kanyinya and Mageragere. Peer educator have adopted an
individual approach to interact with the youth both girls and boys, as they believe this approach
is much efficacy and beneficiaries feel much comfortable to confide on peer educator without a
gender barrier, as both participants interact individually with peer educator of their gender which
allow them to be open and discloser even the little secret curiosity confidently.

Awareness on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancy prevention and testing and fight against drugs abuse amongst the youth/teens.

in 8^th August 2023Through a warm collaboration with the Ministry of Health through Rwanda
Biomedical Center, City of Kigali, the District of Nyarugenge and other state institutions a
national campaign to fight drugs and other subsistence’s abuse among community, especially
youth was launched at Club Rafiki youth center. Yet, we all acknowledge the negative impact
drugs and subsistence’s abuse has in the very lives of the youth, it destroys their welfare,
dreams and their health as well, including expose them to extreme poverty and undesirable
situations. Our role with the support of government is to invest all necessary effort and power
to tackle this problem in our community and make Rwandan community a safer place to live for
all, especially for the generation to come.

During the campaign in which, dignitaries and different public figures attended and about two
thousand (2,000) students from high school across the City of Kigali comprising of Saint Andre,
Camp Kigali and St Joseph secondary school, it was a milestone approach to tackle down the
problem of drugs especially among youth. Attendee received word of inspiration and advice
from government officials and role model public figures who’s their commitment and
dedication to eradicate the problem of drugs among community is their moto and top priority,
because they understand very well the impact of drugs among youth, and from their own
perspective they know that a drugs free generation is a prosperous generation.

I seat here today listen to the advices of government official regarding drugs and it effect in our lives, I realized that in order to succeed and achieve my dreams I must stay away of it and all the wrong influence that can indulge me in using drugs

said Amza, 18 years’ boy St Andre secondary school student.

From 24 to 26 of September 2019, Club Rafiki in partnership with Ministry of Youth and Ministry of Health organized the Voluntary Counseling and Testing – VCT mobile in Nyamirambo and Kigali Sectors particularly in Rugarama Cell at Miduha local market and Nyabugogo cell at Giti cy’inyoni, and the objectives of these activities. Which were to
educate youth to their communities about the fight and prevention of HIV and AIDS and to educate the community about Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights-SRHR and the danger of unwanted pregnancy among the youth. 

Life is precious and it is the most valuable things we have, a healthy life brings hope and development and a bright future for the person who values it. Unhealthy life is a big loss it affects families, the country even the whole world. This is the reason why at national and local authority join hands with its partners including Local and international NGOs are pursuing the agenda to value and protect its citizens through different program by educating them about Sexual Reproductive Health-SRH, how to prevent themselves against Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), unplanned pregnancy amongst teenagers and the danger of drug abuse and bad influence amongst our youth.

For reducing this HIV prevalence we’ve to reflect on this point:

• Adding the informative dialogues to the youth because many of youth are out of information on SRH,
• Solidifying in SRH the youth initiative like clubs and saving groups others,
• totaling the educational show to the local communities
• producing modern communication materials like films and IT apps,

Club Rafiki (CR) we are sensitizing children and youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS, anti teen pregnancy and and cleanliness as one of the ways to prevent various diseases.