Help & Shelter is pleased to have been requested by UNFPA to continue in 2013 and expand on the work that had begun in 2012.
This year's activities consist of:
- Conducting sensitisation sessions in identified workplaces to enhance knowledge about gender equality and reproductive rights, the Domestic Violence Act and the negative impact of gender-based violence.
- Conducting sensitisation sessions with women to enhance their knowledge about their rights, including reproductive rights, about the negative impacts of gender-based violence and about the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Acts
- Providing programme support for awareness sessions with footballers and at barbershops to change traditional values and oems that promote violence against women and girls.
- Incorporating family planning information in assistance given to clients at the crisis service and shelter.
- Referring crisis service and shelter clients to health centres and clinics for family planning services?.
- Disseminating information and family planning commodities (male & female condoms) to clients.
- Promoting family planning at the community level through individual and group outreach activities for women and men in selected communities in Regions 3 and 4.
- Referring community members to community health centres and clinics for family planning services.
- Disseminating information and family planning commodities (male & female condoms) through individual and group outreach activities.