A nongovernmental organization, Save the Child Health and Empowerment Initiative (SACHEM), has begun campaigns to promote reproductive and sexual health education in Nigeria schools.
Speaking at the unveiling ceremony of the newly birthed NGO in Lokoja Monday, the founder of SACHEM, Sylvia Kamsiyochukwu Nnuekwe, said the organisation is also committed to reducing all forms of sexual and gender based violence in Nigeria.
Sylvia, a 19-year- old undergraduate of Public Health, noted that, SACHEM is a non-profit organisation dedicated to making a lasting impact in the world and more importantly, the lives of the next generation here in Nigeria in terms of good health.
She said: “This initiative is based on my desire to create awareness and provide information and support to children and adolescent girls in Nigeria in the areas of health, hygiene, and safety.
“SACHEM also symbolises my unwavering commitment to being part of the change I wish to see in the areas of health, environmental, and gender issues in Nigeria and I am glad that at 19, I am finally realising this dream that I had while still in secondary school years ago.
“Our mission is to lay the foundation of good health and contribute to forming a healthy and safe world for children and adolescent girls to be empowered enough to fulfill their dreams while our goal is to build a sustainable platform for promoting children and adolescent girls’ health, hygiene and gender-based needs in Nigeria in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), goals three and five. It may also interest you to know that our core values are equality, collaboration, innovation, service, and integrity, and we hold strongly to these,” she said.
She mentioned free distribution of hygiene kits and health books to girls, physical workshop and training, performing arts, free counseling and rehabilitation and media campaign as some of the tools that would be used to achieve the organisation’s goals and objectives.
