22 Oct 2021 - ENAD Staff Member

The Ethiopian National Association of the Deaf launches a project titled “My Body My Rights and My Deafness, Empowering Deaf Girls through Peer Education”, in the presence representatives of the Australian Embassy.

The project is being implemented with a grant amounting to ETB 670,000.00 obtained from the Australian Embassy’s Embassy Small Grants Program. The project is a six months deaf women empowerment project designed to address the ever increasing rate of gender based violence against deaf girls, rape, unwanted pregnancy, sexual transmitted disease and violation of the sexual and reproductive health rights of deaf girls in Ethiopia. Its specific objective is to empower 750 deaf girls, through peer education, to be able to make their own decisions about their health, body and sexual life and equip them with the advocacy tools needed to stand up for their rights and protect themselves. It also aims to reach a minimum of 30,000 non-disabled citizens through advocacy activities throughout the country and increase the awareness level of deaf girls’ sexual and reproductive health rights by at least 25% in six months.