SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & RIGHTS

GRS’s innovative soccer-based programming provides critical gender, HIV, and SRHR education to adolescents in schools, at soccer structures, and in community centers. The use of soccer language and activity-based social learning makes traditionally stigmatized SRHR concepts normalized and non-threatening.

GRS trains local youth as “Coaches” to deliver GRS’s comprehensive SRHR education programming and to promote access to health services among adolescents in multiple community-based settings. Coaches receive training in basic counseling and conducting referrals, and accompany youth to the clinic to access health services.

Through programs and community events, GRS provides information about and facilitates access to a range of SRHR services, including but not limited to: HCT, sexually transmitted infections & cervical cancer screening, sexual violence & rape counseling, contraception, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). Coaches conduct home visits to provide parents, guardians, and community members with information about programs and upcoming community health events.