Our Programs

At ZanaAfrica, we implement innovative programming for both adolescent girls and boys in Kenya, to help them safely navigate puberty and unlock their potential. We take an ecosystem approach to delivering our work across Kenya:

Macro Level Work

Scaling ZanaAfrica’s curriculum across public schools

In 2020, ZanaAfrica launched an initiative to adapt and scale our proven program across classrooms, training teachers to deliver our reproductive health and rights education across Kenya with an aim to reach over 200,000 adolescents by 2026 and all 13M youth in Kenya in the next ten years.

To achieve these goals, we are working with the Kenyan Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) to adapt our program for school-based delivery. Through this initiative, ZanaAfrica and KICD are actively co-creating a teacher training program to equip educators with the tools they need to deliver ZanaAfrica’s educational program across public schools. This initiative aims to support youth with the health and life skills education they need to have more control over their bodies, decisions and futures.

Local Level Work

Creating change with and for communities

ZanaAfrica trains community based organizations across Kenya to deliver health sessions on topics related to adolescence, puberty, teenage pregnancy, mental health, and goal setting and more.

These training sessions help mentors to deliver health sessions to adolescents locally through a rights-based lens.

Our local efforts include delivering supportive and confidential health talks, sanitary pads, and underpants to tens of thousands of girls each year.

Real-time Digital Support

Nia HealthLink

Nia HealthLink embodies our commitment to help girls know, access, and actualize their health and rights, starting with the right to a safe and dignified menstruation. Nia HealthLink provides rights-based reproductive health answers to important questions and connects people to digital and in-person healthcare.

A chatbot and a hotline providing free, real-time answers to reproductive health and rights questions, this tool was based on more than 20,000 anonymous questions about topics like menstruation, consent, bodily changes, and more.

Try Nia HealthLink

Message +254 111 721 642 on WhatsApp to get started or call the hotline to speak with an operator 0800 721 642. Both services are completely free.