Safe Spaces: A life-changing place for adolescent girls and young women in Rwanda
“Rwandan and African traditional cultures – like in other parts of the world – more generally tend to promote gender inequality on women’s rights and power. This being my home, I grew up knowing that I did not want to live under a patriarchal system forever.
Growing up, I witnessed gender inequalities and gender-based violence (GBV) all around me. In leadership and education, discrimination in so-called “men’s careers”, and many more obstacles that both hindered girls’ dreams and development in general, but also exposed us to high-risk lives of unprotected sexual intercourse, leading to unplanned pregnancies and the frightening possibility of contracting HIV.
Safe Spaces awoke power within me to contribute in the fight for girls and women’s rights, and against any form of gender-based violence.”
Read the whole post by Uwase Aisha on her work with holding Safe Spaces for adolescent girls and young women in Rwanda.
