THE CONFIDENCE QUEEN

#giveherconfidence

The Confidence Queen mentorship academy was designed to provide girls with mentorship, educational resources about period and reproductive health, Self-esteem and life skills to thrive in School and in general life with confidence and make informed choices. With the aim to unlock their potential. We provide girls with mentorship and menstrupedia comic, a friendly guide to healthy period.

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Overview

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Updated February 2023

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2020

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Target group

INCREASE GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN SELF- EFFICACY AND MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS ON MENSTRUAL HEALTH We envision a world where girls and young women know their purpose, values, talk freely with love, freedom and live a fulfilled life full of confidence and be able to create solutions to community problems using technology.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Many adolescent girls in Kenya (ages 10-19yrs) face numerous pressures that prevent them from realizing their full potential. (Early marriages, sexual harassment, childhood pregnancies, GBV and violations of children’s rights) that affect their well-being and hinder a safe, healthy, and productive transition into early adulthood.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

There is limited access to accurate and reliable information on menstrual and sexual reproductive health available among Kenyan young people that can empower them to make informed choices and decisions. This is compounded by barriers to access reproductive health services.Limited access to information, safe SRHR commodities and services contribute to unwanted pregnancies, teen pregnancies, sexual violence, early marriage, school dropouts and sometimes death as a result of unsafe reproductive health choices. The policy environment does not favor full access to safe and timely SRHR information and services.

The Confidence Queen knows that information is power. We provide women and girls with accurate information on SRHR through our new resource Menstrupedia comic. A friendly guide to healthy periods and life skills through our mentorship academy to enable them make informed choices and decision.

How has it been spreading?

IMPACT
#giveherconfidence Campaign: 1500 girls reached with MHM education/ASRH talk
Mentorship Academy: 1,500 adolescents girls impacted through the Monthly mentorship activities.
Support groups for young women: 20 young women reached with economic empowerment on tailoring including making re-usable sanitary towels
Mum & daughter workshop: 300 mums & 400 girls reached online with MHM education & life skills.
Period party event RHF facility: - reached 2,500 girls with period talk

Normalizing conversations around period, puberty and reproductive health rights amongst girls and young women between 9-24years and the community around them.
Increase girls and young women self- efficacy and making informed decisions.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Visit our website www.theconfidencequeen.org
Reach out to founder: akeyo.nancy@theconfidencequeen.org

Implementation steps

Training of mentors based on the guide

The people who will use the resources will have to be trained on how to use the guide and how they can conduct fun and engagement workshop with learners.

Map up the schools and groups

You will have to map up the schools and the groups you want to reach with the menstrual health managment education and mentorship program.

Agree with the schools and groups on mentorship

Agree with the schools on the mentorship period and timing when the learners are available.

Conduct the sessions

once ready with the plan and the curriculum, start your sessions in targeted schools and groups

Follow ups

Do a follow up with schools to generate feedback from the learners and measure the impact.