EKI’s goal as it has been explained, is to promote SRHR and Gender Equality. Inclusion rather than exclusion is a sure bet when it comes to achieving these two goals.
Boys are future husbands. Leaving them behind is injurious to EKI’s cause. The program aims at sensitizing the boys as young as they are the import of helping in the kitchen, caring for children and viewing girls and women as partners and not servants and second class humans.
Working with boys within the purview of reproductive health has a long way to go in being explicitly and intentionally gender-transformative and incisively accountable to the principles of women’s rights from all perspectives.
The guiding principles of this program are two-pronged. Every school holiday, boys from Forms One to Form Four are invited for a meeting in their respective sub-counties to be sensitized. Secondly, school visits are done by program officers and male role models from the communities over the weekends to have a one-on-one conversations on thematic areas. These are workable interventions that nip masculinities in the bud to save future female generations from GBV and other forms of gender violence.