It has been four and a half years of impacting over 66,000 young people in Lagos and Kano under the USAID Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health (YPE4AH) project.
YEDI and its technical partner, Grassroot Soccer, worked with other partners, including DAI, WFI Friendly initiative, and Yellow Brick Road Lagos, on the USAID YPE4AH project to use a uniquely adapted SKILLZ curriculum to improve the health and well-being of urban, low-income adolescents (aged 15–19) in Lagos and Kano States by teaching youth life skills for healthy living, family planning, and workforce readiness. The project also helped young people access job opportunities and entrepreneurship mentoring to address socioeconomic determinants of adolescent health.
The project significantly assisted beneficiaries to focus on improving their health and well-being, offering support on key issues like family planning, substance abuse, puberty education, gender-based violence, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Through the Youth Hubs, four in Lagos and two in Kano, the project created safe spaces that empower youths to learn essential life skills training, helping them navigate societal pressures and obstacles to their dreams and potential.
To celebrate the project climax, YEDI hosted a send-forth gathering for its staff members who worked on the project. The gathering afforded the team an opportunity to share their experience and look back at their deep involvement in nurturing and shaping a more quality path for the project’s young beneficiaries.