Waridi / Addressing Sexual Violence

Youth Changers Kenya implements a project called “Waridi” the project seeks to increase knowledge levels of key gatekeepers on SGBV, provide girls with practical self-defense skills, train human rights champions who report abuse cases and offer psycho-social support to victims of abuse. The sexual violence model employs a systemic process that is innovative it uses soccer & a leadership model that is for the youth & by the youth; it targets gatekeepers they include: chiefs, police, clinical officers and community health volunteers. The project has provided psychological support to survivors of sexual violence.