My Safety My Wellbeing: Equipping adolescent girls with the key knowledge and skills to help them mitigate, prevent and respond to gender based violence

My Safety My Wellbeing curriculum is to equip the girls with key knowledge and skills they need to help mitigate, prevent and respond to GBV. This would happen when providing a space for girls, where they feel comfortable to talk about the issues that affect them. It is a 13-week course that gradually prepares and equips the girls with a set of skills, based around communication, decision making, creative and critical thinking whilst also building their confidence and self-esteem. The curriculum encompasses 26 sessions in total that usually take place twice a week for 2 hours (including breaks). The curriculum helps girls to develop positive coping mechanisms and establish a secure network of friends and a support system in an interactive and fun way. “My Safety, My Wellbeing” groups a variety for components, such as informational sessions, a space to discuss topics that affect girls’ daily lives, it gradually empowers them to take the lead in sessions all while encouraging them to provide solutions to their own problems.