BATA, INC. (YKBI) 46
YAKAP SA KAUNLARAN NG
Title of Project: Strengthening Advocacy and Youth-Led Action on ohe Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy
Yakap sa Kaunlaran ng Bata, Inc. (YAKAP) is facilitating protection and a development program for children, youth and their families in Batangas, Laguna. Strong, organized community-based adult, youth and children volunteers support YAKAP in implementing and monitoring its projects. YAKAP is focusing on age-appropriate trainings for children and youth such as: Drop Out Prevention Project (DROP), Alternative Lifelong Learning System (ALLS), Youth-Led DRR and Lead Strong Project which is capacity building project for organizations. Strengthening Advocacy & Youth-led action to prevent teenage pregnancy focuses on understanding the rampant rise of teenage pregnancies in Laguna region despite currently having a running Adolescents Sexual Reproductive Health Program. This program focuses on girls who are now mothers as a result of teenage pregnancies. The model of the project involves assisting young girls in accessing child-friendly maternal healthcare, providing age-appropriate trainings on sex education and effectively ensuring they are knowledgeable on the role of being a mother in child- friendly families and communities. This enables and empowers teenage mothers into becoming advocates in lobbying against early pregnancy and ensuring inclusion in communities and educational opportunities for teenage mothers.
95
Made with FlippingBook. PDF to flipbook with ease