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Inclusive Education Girls Up

Honoré Imanirabaruta initiated his project named “Inclusive Education Girls Up,” an initiative that involves setting up rooms that help girls in villages to access sanitary products and sexual reproductive health information.

ndiho

Joelle Claudette Kawera and Uwamwezi Nathalie initiated a project called “Ndiho,” which constitutes playing cards bearing information on mental health, such as helplines, signs of mental illness and other Mental Health-related information.

outburst

Alda Gihozo is a cartoonist with a project called ‘Outburst’. The project entails using cartoons in books that parents can use to teach their children about sexual reproductive health.

bigomba guhinduka

Etienne Iryamukuru & Japhet Mazimpaka’s project is called “Bigomba Guhinduka,” which directly translates to “It must change.” The team used their famous comedic slogan to encourage people to speak up about Mental Health issues.

GIRL DISTRICT TEAM

The conversation and accessibility of information around Sex Education in Rwanda is still very weak. Girl District dedicates itself to instructing young women and men around the topics of Sexual Education using comic books written by Girls and For Girls, A mentorship center as well as community training.

TANTINE APP

Literally means ‘little aunties’, is a set of platforms designed by two medical students of the University of Rwanda. Culturally reproductive health education was assumed by Aunties.

With the current family relationships and busy families, no one is now suitable and available to mentor teens on reproductive health.

TEAM UMBRELLA

Umbrella is a digital platform that will empower and educate young girls and women to make informed and smart decisions about their sexual reproductive health.

This platform will be available through USSD and mobile application. Its main features will be a menstrual cycle tracking system and a pregnancy mode.

TUBIGANIRE TV SHOW

TUBIGANIRE TV SHOW is a TV show that aims at stimulating Rwandan parents to have open/genuine sexual reproductive health-related conversations with their children in their homes.

The whole point of this show is to help our Rwandan society get over “the sexual talk taboo” that has always been the root cause for most of the issues Rwandan teenagers face.

KEZA GAME

An edutainment game application that encourages positive attitudes and behaviour towards adolescent sexual reproductive health, using a character named ‘Keza’.

URUKUNDO INITIATIVE

An interactive game called ‘Urukundo’ and an information pack consisting of a booklet and a game toolkit with adolescent sexual reproductive health messages.