Our Project - $3,500 for health education and economic empowerment for vulnerable adolescent girls

GlobeMed at Cornell and CEPAIPA have collaboratively developed a project, which consists of three components, to address a few prominent issues within the community.

1. CEPAIPA Awareness Campaign ($1000): an awareness campaign led by CEPAIPA to advertise and promote the work and services of the organization throughout the greater community

2. Community Health Education Program ($1800):

a. Teenage Girl Empowerment (youth health promoter training):train 25 teenage girls to deliver a health education curriculum to 75 younger girls (each trainee will be partnered with 3 younger girls to mentor)

b. Community Health Forums: a series of eight public health forums led by CEPAIPA’s staff and local community leaders. Topics will include nutrition, physical health, HIV/STD prevention, mental health, maternal health, drugs/alcohol abuse.

3. Income-Generation Program ($700): 25 teenage girls (youth health promoters) and 75 younger mentees will be provided the training and materials for craft/jewelry making. The project will serve to empower the girls financially and will support other community-building activities.