Our Solutions

ZanaAfrica offers a proven holistic solution to support girls on their journey through adolescence through The Nia Program, a rigorously tested and proven intervention that is shown to significantly improve girls’ reproductive health knowledge, their agency and resilience, and causes shifts to more equitable gender norms.

Menstrual Health Management

ZanaAfrica delivers Nia sanitary pads and underpants to girls in Kenya as a gateway to address period poverty and engage girls in conversations about their reproductive health and rights. Learn more →

Health and Life Skills Education

ZanaAfrica’s Nia Yetu is a facilitated health and life skills curriculum co-designed and created with the insights of adolescent girls and informed by from best practice resources in adolescent health education. This curriculum includes puberty, reproduction and family planning; gender, power, rights and consent; sexual and gender-based violence; decision making, agency and self-confidence; and health relationships and mental health and more. Learn more →

Social Behavior and Change Communication

Nia Teen, ZanaAfrica’s youth-centric printed magazines are designed to improve the health, confidence, and agency of adolescents across Kenya. This locally created illustrated publication serves as a textbook to support Nia Yetu, and celebrates real girls, highlights their heroes, and includes an innovative comic that walks alongside girls as they experience the joys and challenges of growing up. Learn more →

Our Programs

ZanaAfrica has reached more than 100,000 program participants since 2007. We are now expanding our work across Kenya to create generational impact at scale (or to create a more just and gender equal world at scale). Our ecosystem approach ensures we're addressing the challenges faced by youth and meeting adolescents where they are, across schools, communities, and online. Learn more →

Sustainable Development Goals

Our work is guided by the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet. Learn more →