In our efforts to inspire and enable a better world, most of our activities target vulnerable communities, with a particular focus on youth and women. Facing a lack of resources and long distances from health or education institutions, many of these individuals do not have access to services and remain trapped in the cycle on poverty. Working with UNICEF in refugee camps and rural communities, GHDF trains community leaders to mobilize the population and sensitize them about various health issues. Community Hygiene Clubs are formed in the different communities and songs, poems, dances are used to disseminate messages and encourage good hygiene and sanitation practices.

The HIV and GBV prevention campaign targets adolescents, aiming to raise awareness, reduce negative stigma towards those who live with HIV and victims of GBV, and prevent new HIV infections and cases of GBV.

Once again, community leaders, and peer educators are trained on these subjects and take on the responsibility of sensitizing their communities. With the support of health institutions, campaigns of Medical Male Circumcision and mobile clinics for Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV have been conducted in districts, reaching out to the most vulnerable adolescents, and those who lack access to information and services. Since 2014, the HIV and GBV prevention project of UNICEF and GHDF has reached more than 200 000 adolescents through community based educational activities, more than 3000 adolescents boys have been circumcised and more than 25 000 have been tested for HIV. The demand for these services is still high, and access to the health facilities is not easy for the most vulnerable adolescents, but they are better informed now and several “Anti-sida and Anti-GBV clubs” have been formed to continue raising awareness and providing support to those who are being stigmatized.