Sports: Best Tools In Reproductive Health Rights-Umunthu Foundation

Umunthu Foundation says Sports is one of the best tools of raising awareness in the Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.

Speaking during a press briefing in Blantyre, Umunthu Foundation executive director, David Odali says positive youth programs help build confidence, skills and knowledge to reach their economic and social wellbeing.

Odali says the pilot project which is being implemented in Mulanje’s Traditional Authority Mabuka and Njema follows the high HIV prevalence rate the district has.

He says they are using the game of football to disseminate crucial information on HIV and sexual reproductive health rights through the Tisewere4SRHR project which they are jointly implementing with UK base Tackle organization.

Odali says, with financial support from the French Embassy, the project has already reached out to 1200 youths following the training of 20 football coaches who are now teaching community peer educators, to reach out to youths with SRHR and HIV messages to their respective teams.