Results / Achievements

SRH & GBV information and services/Legal literacy

The intervention has reached 197651 people in the programme beneficiary districts with sexual reproductive health information and services, SGBV and legal literacy through SGBV champions connect and RHESY facilitators.

  • 144,387 adolescent girls (10 to 19 years)
  • 18,508 women above 20 years
  • 16,598 men and 18,508 boys

Livelihood empowerment programme

  • 2500 adolescent girls have been engaged in different enterprise development skills; making household detergents, Shea butter cosmetics, production of spices (ginger, pepper, prekese and garlic powder), bee keeping, batik tie and dye, beads making, leather works and confectionery among others.
  • Native co-operative Multi-purpose Production Society Limited for marginalized girls in Greater Accra, Ashanti, and Bono-East Regions was registered.
  • 300 adolescent girls registered in the co-operatives.
  • Three (3) enterprise development and SRH centers in Greater Accra, Ashanti and Bono-East Regions attracted over 3000 adolescent girls since the inception of the intervention. The girls visit the centres for SRH information, services and livelihood empowerment training.

Kayayei business and leadership fair

Five (5) kayayei fairs have been organized. The fair created a platform for over 3000 kayayei and other marginalized girls running the cosmetics, confectionery business, root, and tuber processing (Cassava, Plantain, cocoyam, potato flour), to meet, share experiences, and network. The platform has been created to showcase all the adolescent girls who were supported by the programme and canvass for more support from the private and public sectors.

Grooming Sessions

The Grooming sessions on SRH, SGV and career guidance is a complementary support programme. The strategic intention is to assist the kayayei and other marginalized girls acquire support for their lives and have sustainable lives. The support was in the form of mentorship, formal, informal and non-formal support.

  • Seven (7) girls have been supported in the university, thus University of Ghana, University of Education Winneba, University for Development Studies and the University of Health and Allied Sciences.
  • Two (2) girls were supported into the Accra Technical University and the Sunyani Technical University.
  • Additionally, seven (7) girls were also supported Teacher and Nursing training Colleges, thus St. Louis College of Education, Tumu Nursing and Midwifery College, Naleirugu Nursing Training College, Krobo Nursing Training College and Assinman Nursing Training College.
  • Three (3) were also supported in 2 Senior High Schools; Ashiaman Senior High School and Amoma Community Senior High School.
  • Twenty-eight (28) of the kayayei and child mothers were enrolled in Vocational trainings. These trainings had 10 girls in dressmaking, 12 in hairdressing, 4 girls in Catering, one in welding and another girl in studying electrical.
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The Chief Justice Mentorship

60 Kayayei were privileged to be selected to participate in the Chief Justice Mentorship programme. Some of the kayayei were motivated to become entrepreneurs, went back to secondary school and enrolled in tertiary institutions among others.

African Women Development Fund (AWDF)

The Purim African Youth Development Platform with funding from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is implemented a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) project particularly dubbed “Kaya Aba”. This project is being implemented in four (4) regions across the country, thus, Ashanti, Bono-East, Upper East and North East regions of Ghana. The project is targeted at vulnerable Kayayei girls and women between the ages of ten (10) and thirty-five (35)
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a Pan-African grant making organization that supports the realization and fulfillment of African women’s rights through funding of autonomous women’s organizations on the continent.

Achievements

  • Trained 1500 members of the Kayayei Orange girls network to advocate against violence against women and girls.
  • Girls were trained as VAWG Champions to educate their peers in the communities, identify cases of VAWG and report these cases to the appropriate institutions.
  • Trained 500 girls and young women in entrepreneurship, marketing and leadership skills and provided them with business startup to engage in more empowering and profitable businesses. Women and girls received training in the production of fortified Gari (Techiman), Shea butter production (Walewale), household detergents and cosmetics (Kumasi) and basket weaving (Bongo)
  • Organised sensitisation/training sessions for key stakeholders such as religious leaders, chiefs, local government, development partners, women groups and organisations to support the fight against violence against women and girls.
  • Provided health screenings for 1000 young women and other people in the project area as an outreach to educate communities on the rights of girls and the need to address the kayayei problem.
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