OUR WORK
Sexual Health & Reproductive Rights
This project empowers adolescents and young adults to understand, claim, and protect their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through education, engagement, and advocacy. Delivered in Bulawayo Province, Zimbabwe, it responds to critical issues including high HIV & AIDS prevalence, teenage pregnancies, STI rates, and limited access to SRHR services—particularly among young people aged 10–24.
engaged in 'risky sexual behaviours' by project start
for young people's health and other services
making informed decisions about healthy releationships
How we help
We work in partnership with Trinity Project to address the root causes of vulnerability, including poverty, lack of information and harmful social norms. Our approach is community-driven, inclusive, and aligns with national frameworks such as the Zimbabwe National AIDS Strategic Plan.
Kids Clubs are central to our delivery. These vibrant, youth-led groups cover vital SRHR topics including condom use, STIs, healthy relationships, consent, gender-based violence, and more. Through poetry, music, debate, and role-play, young people share experiences and build confidence.
We also support senior youth roles within each club. These peer leaders guide discussions and provide informal counselling to fellow members.
Parent-to-Child Dialogues
To break harmful taboos, we facilitate structured dialogues between parents and children, supported by healthcare professionals and social workers. These sessions help families communicate openly about sexual health, boundaries, and expectations.
Economic Empowerment
Understanding the link between poverty and SRHR risks, we deliver financial literacy training and income-generating activities through Kids Clubs. Young people produce and sell items like body spray, floor polish, and fabric softener, with some groups now operating as small-scale social enterprises.
Sanitary Wear Support
To combat period poverty, we provide sanitary products to girls in the programme. This improves school attendance, gives confidence, promotes menstrual health, and reduces the likelihood of engaging in transactional sex to afford basic necessities.
Advocacy leads to tangible service improvements
- Youth-friendly spaces reopened at two health centres
- Free condom access and improved SRHR service delivery
- Collaboration with the National AIDS Council, Ministry of Health, and local schools
- Stronger referral pathways and increased access to HIV testing, Anti Retroviral Therapy, family planning, and psychosocial support
- Reduced stigma and increased knowledge across communities
- Strengthened local services and systems
- 1,000 parents engaged for intergenerational dialogue and community ownership
- Provided alternatives to risky behaviours through education and entrepreneurship
- Together, we are building a generation of young people who are informed, empowered, and supported to live safe and healthy lives.
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Our partnership with Trinity Project - in their words
“…due to these parent to child dialogues, I am now able to have a free and frank communication with my child…”
“We really appreciate the help that we are getting from Trinity project, we are now able to make informed decisions, and we now know that sex is a choice and no one can force you into engaging into risky sexual behaviours and we are now able to use condoms correct and consistent.”
“We as young mothers... are now able to fend and put food on the table... With the body sprays we are selling we are able to get money to buy food for our little sisters and brothers.”