What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? By participating in a grassroots soccer program, youth in the Kibera slum learn ethnic and religious cooperation and other leadership and lifeskills.
]]>What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? By participating in a grassroots soccer program, youth in the Kibera slum learn ethnic and religious cooperation and other leadership and lifeskills.
]]>Only 1% of girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya have access to an all-girl, development program. Young women in the slum aged 15-24 are contracting HIV at a rate 5 times that of their male counterparts. The Binti Pamoja Center creates a safe space for adolescent girls to discuss reproductive health issues and to fight gender-based violence and discrimination. The Center also offers educational scholarships for secondary school, financial literacy training, and peer education training.
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