Meet the team: Yvonne, Coordinator Research and Learning.

Hi, my name is Yvonne Wanjiru Njuguna. At ACLAD, I’m the Coordinator Research and Learning. In this position, I am involved in several things such as:

• offering mentorship sessions to our high school and college sponsored children at the Kakamega office and during home visits at the coast region. The sessions involve their academic and social follow-up and entrepreneurship skills.
• empowering young people with a lifeskills program called Chagua Maisha. This involves TOT training in schools and the communities, follow up of peer-to-peer sessions in schools and communities in Kakamega county.

• building young people’s capacity in their livelihood skills by training them on land preparation, preparation of nursery beds and planting of Africa Leafy Vegetables (ALVs).
• engaging in adolescent menstrual health. This involves fundraising for sanitary towels from friends and the community. Distribution of sanitary towels to young girls in schools and communities in Kakamega, Kajiado and Kilifi counties, training on menstrual hygiene and proper disposal of sanitary products, engaging men in schools in menstrual health education and distribution of sanitary towels to end period stigma and shame.

• empowering youth and parents on the current gaps on Sexual and reproductive Health and building stronger relationships between youth and parents to increase family planning use and reduce stigma related to sexuality and early pregnancy through Stepping Up! Project in Kakamega and Uasin Gishu counties. The project had several activities; meeting with local leaders, mobilization of participants, recruitment of facilitators, baseline survey, supervision of program implementation of the Families Matter! and Stepping Stones programs, endline survey, focus group discussions, qualitative data coding and analysis, participating in writing of abstracts, presentation of an abstract.
• empowering youth in livelihood and SRH skills through the Savings Internal Lending Communities and Stepping Stones (SILC/SS) project in Kakamega county with youth. Activities under the project include; meeting with local leaders in Malava sub-county, mobilization of participants, program training of the SILC manual and a refresher course of the Stepping Stones manual, training of the baseline survey questionnaire and the baseline survey, program implementation of the SILC and SS manuals, training youth in soap making skills.

Yvonne Wanjiru

Coordinator Research and Learning