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On the 11th of august the youth advocate group carried out a 1 day sensitization workshop for the national assembly staffers in the country. We had secretaries and aides from the committee on health, Education and HIV, from both the House of Representatives and House of Senate present at the sensitization. Also present were news men from the National Television Authority (NTA) and the African international television (AIT).
The sensitization workshop was aimed at enlightening them (the staffers) on who we are, what we are doing as the youth advocate group and also create a platform for partnership. In respect to this, we made a power point presentation outlining our goals, our achievements and our projects. We also had a video screening compiled of interviews and surveys we carried out on youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in different communities in the country.
After this was concluded, we broke out into groups with both council members and staffers together in different groups, these groups were to reflect on what they had seen in the video and discuss possible ways to which issue identified could be tackled. This went successfully and at the end a member from each group presented the harmonized ideas, with both groups in agreement that the video sent across a message on the need of young people as regards youth SRHR. Problems identified mostly consisted of the issues of project funding and to liaise with a specific key person at the ministry of health.
During the cause of the sensitization we collected views and types of support by a representative of each of the committee present; we also carried out individual interviews with some committee staff. To close it up we took group photos and went back to further discuss on the ideas and ways to actualize them and on the issues identified and ways to solve them.
The Youth Advocate group Nigeria…………….. MAKING A DIFFERENCE!!!
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