By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay
FREETOWN, March 15, (SALONE TIMES) – Girls Advocacy Alliance continues their engagement of girls in Dwarzark through girls engage for community development project.
The project is supported by Dream Town through YMCA targeting Dwarzark community as an Urban Space Challenge Project and it is implemented by Girls Advocacy Alliance.
Girls Advocacy Alliance Project Coordinator, Jamiatu Sesay said there activities covered: ASRH and life skills sessions, group meetings, community awareness raising, menstrual hygiene management, in-door games and counselling.
She described the group as a community action group that is in that community to empower girls for them to be bold and able to be great women in society.
She went on to say they also catering for young girls during their menstrual period to know that menstrual period is by choice not by chance.
She explained that they are giving the girls hygiene kits for them to maintain themselves during that period and for them to be able to go to school.
Jamiatu Sesay disclosed that they are targeting 100 girls in that community and they are meeting the every Saturday due to the school the girls are attending.
Youth and Child Advocacy Network first formed the group but when that project folded Girls Advocacy Alliance steeps in and later supported by YMCA.
Jamiatu Sesay described Dwazark community as a deprived community that was having series of teenage pregnancy, early marriage cases but since the awareness kicked off through empowerment of other organisations there is a declined in such cases.
Samuel Yemeh Koroma educated girls about menstrual hygiene management and how girls should take care of themselves during that period.
Some of the girls expressed thanks to Girls Advocacy Alliance for coming to their aid. They showcased what was thought to them by the expert and how determining they are to continue the transformation of their community.
