We Lead’s goal is to: by the end of 2025, resilient young women with disabilities, living with HIV, affected by displacement or identifying as LBTI, play a leading role in strengthened and inclusive organizations and movements that enjoy increased public support and have convinced duty-bearers and health-service providers to take steps towards implementing laws, policies and practices that respect and protect these young women’s SRH-R”.
Stretchers Youth Organization is working towards building public support through holding community awareness, sensitization and use of information and communication approaches that aims to see to it that the targeted rights holders get positive recognition and support from the general public. SYO is working towards building and strengthening the rights holders’ individual and organizations capacities through the consistent application of the principles of non-discrimination, active participation and inclusion. By doing this, our right holders are empowered and have more control over decisions and resources that determine the quality of SRH-R services including structural inequalities hindering them from being heard.
This is an ongoing 5-year project (2021-2025) being implemented by a consortium of 11 organizations in Kenya where Stretchers Youth Organization implements it in Mombasa County with young women living with HIV/AIDS as their Right Holders. The project is being funded by HIVOS with Centre for Study of Adolescence being the Host Kenyan organization.
