Youth Friendly Center

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Youth Friendly Center

Our approach is targeted, services are designed and planned for youth alone and are offered in settings that meet the needs of youths. We deliver an essential service package that includes Life-skills training (Communication skills, negotiation, and goal setting, decision making, refusal skills - assertiveness - coping skills -etc), sexual and reproductive health education on STIs, counselling, male and female condom demonstration, referral to other services.

Our Beneficiaries

Groups of adolescents and youth who are hard to reach, vulnerable and marginalized. They require special attention and consideration. These include:

  • Rural adolescents and youth
  • Out of school adolescents and youth
  • Orphans and young people with disability
  • Young people living with HIV
  • Very young adolescents 10-14 years of age
  • Married adolescent girls
  • Young first-time young mothers
  • Young people who have migrated to urban centres to escape early marriage and/or seek employment i.e. including housemaids, houseboys
  • Young people in humanitarian/emergency settings
Our Principle
  • Every young person is unique and belongs to a heterogeneous group with different needs, for health information and services based on a range of factors that include their age, race, sex, gender, culture, life experiences, social situation, religion etc;
  • Reproductive health services are the basic human rights for all people and adolescents and youth have inherent sexual and reproductive rights, including the right to a full range of reproductive health information and services;