Community Sensitization
The Community Sensitization Program addresses the root of the problem TWWP was founded to solve: deeply held beliefs and traditions that place girls at risk. Rather than working with girls and women alone, the program reaches entire communities carried out through door-to-door campaigns, public barazas, and direct engagement with peer youth, women, and men.
Voices of Change
The message is carried by a wide network of trusted community voices: trained mentors, reformed circumcisers, teachers, government agencies, and faith leaders. Their involvement has helped shift long-standing positions elders who once defended the practice of cutting now defend education, and mothers who once prepared daughters for early marriage now prepare them for school.
What the Program Addresses
Sensitization sessions cover a wide range of issues through expert-led training and community mobilization, including:
