Project Title: Adolescent Girls Empowerment Initiative

Location: Peru

Grant Amount: $40,000

Grantee Website: www.sacredvalleyhealth.org

Areas of Impact: Advocacy, Economic Sustainability, Education & Literacy, Gender Equality, Health, Leadership Development

Mission of Sacred Valley Health
Sacred Valley Health’s mission is to improve health in underserved rural communities of Peru’s Sacred Valley through education, access, and empowerment of local women as community health workers.

Summary
The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Initiative (AGEI) aims to train and empower adolescent girls from Indigenous Peruvian communities to become leaders in the field of healthy gender relationships and reproductive health within their communities. This project seeks to address barriers to sexual and reproductive health through a culturally sensitive and participatory approach and was created based on key learnings from a six-week program piloted in 2018 which was extremely successful and very popular among participants.

Why We Love This
We love that this program for adolescent girls utilizes culturally sensitive practices to delay marriage. The program has been so successful that alumni are becoming part of the organization.