Adolescent and Sexual Reproductive Health
WOVOP works alongside adolescent girls and young women so they can understand their bodies, stay in school, and make informed choices about their health and their futures.
Adolescent girls and young women face real barriers to health, education, and safety. Across this thematic area, WOVOP combines sexual and reproductive health education, practical support, and community-led advocacy so that girls can stay in school, understand their rights, and shape their own futures.
Our work reaches from classrooms and informal settlements to county policy. We equip girls with knowledge and life skills, keep the most vulnerable in school, and strengthen the capacity of whole communities to identify and respond to their own health needs.
Because when you invest in a girl, you invest in her community. And when a community invests in its girls, everyone rises.
Girls Talk
Every girl deserves the opportunity to learn, grow and build the future she dreams of. Yet, teenage pregnancy, poverty and other difficult circumstances continue to interrupt the education of many adolescent girls, particularly those living in rural communities and informal settlements of Kisumu where access to education, information and support can be limited.
Through Girls Talk, WOVOP provides adolescent girls with sexual and reproductive health education, life-skills training and guidance to make informed decisions about their health, education and future. So far, we have supported over 315 girls through the #KeepAGirlSafeAndInSchool Campaign, to transition to higher levels of education, giving them an opportunity to continue learning and pursue their ambitions.
We also advocate for teenage mothers and girls whose education has been interrupted to return to school without stigma or discrimination. We believe that teenage pregnancy should never mean the end of a girl’s education or the end of her dreams.
However, this journey requires collective support. Many of the girls rely on the encouragement, goodwill and support of their families, communities and well-wishers to continue their education. Through community engagement, we work with families, men and boys to challenge harmful norms and create safer, more supportive environments for girls.
At its heart, Girls Talk is about ensuring that girls get a second chance at education, the confidence to dream bigger and the opportunity to shape their own futures.
Keep a girl in school
This work grows through partners, well-wishers, and volunteers who believe every girl deserves the chance to stay in school, stay healthy, and shape her own future.