OVER 3,000 girls aged between 9-15 years old in Geita and Kigoma regions are expected to directly benefit from the Keeping Adolescent Girls in School (KAGIS) project.
The project is implemented by the Plan International Organization in collaboration with Rafiki Social Development Organisation (SDO) with funding from the Global Affairs Canada where the beneficiaries are provided facilitation and reproductive health education.
KAGIS Project Manager, Mr Eliud Mtalemwa, made the statement recently while speaking to journalists at the closure of the football tournament organized to promote the campaign aimed at fighting against gender violence.
“Through sports competitions we aim to expand this campaign to reach as many people as we can for them to get informed about gender related violence and gender matters as a whole.
“We fund various activities of the campaign to reach the targeted groups in order to provide them with empowerment services, including self-study materials since some do not have accesses.
“The project also intends to provide sanitary pads, because there are other school girls who miss school due to lack of sanitary pads during their menstrual period,” he added.
Geita District Gender Desk Officer, Ms Rebeca Manace, said many incidents of sexual and gender violence are still committed by relatives and the police force has come with an integrated system to arrest the suspects.
Geita Town Council Community Development Officer, Ms Prisca Rupia, said campaigns against acts of gender violence have raised the awareness of people to report the incidents.
Nyankumbu ward councilor, Mr John Lunyaba said through the Mtakua committees, they managed to initiate the anti-gender violence agenda for producing positive results for each community member to be part of the campaign.
