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Sexual Reproductive Health Training for School Chaplains
The engagement of school chaplains has been an instrumental advocacy tool in addressing SRHR among young people the sessions conducted ensure Chaplains acquire accurate information as well as gain skills to support adolescents and youth who are grappling with health and well-being challenges.
The current data on unintended pregnancies and HIV infections among adolescents and young people from the Ministry of Health Kenya is alarming with reported 45,724 pregnancies among girls aged 10 to 19 in January and February 2022 averaging about 775 a day, thus the need to create support systems for AYP’s through school chaplains by building capacity on how to handle this emerging challenges.
The International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (INERELA+) Kenya Chapter is an interfaith, faith based non-profit organization which was established in 2004 after the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (ANERELA+). The formation of ANERELA+ was inspired the first practicing religious leaders led by Canon Byamgisha to declare openly their HIV status.
Over the years, INERELA+ Kenya has empowered over 2000 religious leaders and has been able to reach over 5 million congregants in faith communities with key messaging on stigma reduction.
INERELA+ Kenya works through community and congregational platforms to engage, mobilize, empower and transform communities through faith sector platforms by integrating advocacy issues including sexual and gender based violence, gender justice, meaningful male engagement, paediatric HIV and TB treatment, mobilization for agribusiness to amplify empowerment to reduce vulnerability to HIV by addressing factors fuelling the spread of HIV.
INERELA+ Kenya works through community mobilization, empowerment and transformation by integrating health education, agribusiness empowerment, gender justice and discourse, SAVE mainstreaming, advocacy and capacity building to address self and community stigma, influence faith communities and national policies around HIV programming, gender, human dignity and accountability and creation of heralds of change to transform their communities.
The network has 15 county chapters (offices) as indicated on the map =>
Pastor Susan is an accomplished guidance and counseling expert with years of experience in interpersonal coaching and development
The International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (INERELA+) Kenya Chapter is an interfaith, faith based non-profit organization which was established in 2004 after the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (ANERELA+). The formation of ANERELA+ was inspired the first practicing religious leaders led by Canon Byamgisha to declare openly their HIV status.
Over the years, INERELA+ Kenya has empowered over 2000 religious leaders and has been able to reach over 5 million congregants in faith communities with key messaging on stigma reduction.
INERELA+ Kenya works through community and congregational platforms to engage, mobilize, empower and transform communities through faith sector platforms by integrating advocacy issues including sexual and gender based violence, gender justice, meaningful male engagement, paediatric HIV and TB treatment, mobilization for agribusiness to amplify empowerment to reduce vulnerability to HIV by addressing factors fuelling the spread of HIV.