Youth Health Champion Manisha gives a demonstration on sanitary pads
Smriti Basnet

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We have lots of exciting work happening across our health projects. Click below to discover more about how we are working to improve health services and rights for some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged members of society.

Case studies from our work in

Adolescents and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR)

Mumagkur, a Nigerian seamstress, who now sews protective face coverings.
VSO / Onye Ubanatu

Adolescents and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR), Myanmar (PDF, 162KB)

Strengthening Access to Adolescent Holistic Health Rights (SYAHAAR)

Aarati  explaining about Depo-Provera shots to local women in Gaur municipality.
Smriti Basnet

Strengthening Access to Adolescent Holistic Health Rights (SYAHAAR) Nepal (PDF, 109KB)

Inclusive sexual and reproductive health services for deaf adolescents 

Volunteer Brown Niyonsaba smiles as she sits in front of a blackboard in the classrrom at Umutara School, signing 'VSO volunteer'
VSO/Ben Langdon

The Bright Futures project, Rwanda (PDF, 191KB)

Promoting human rights for prison populations

Zimbabwe prison
VSO/Cynthia R Matonhodze

Promoting human rights, quality health and wellbeing for prison populations, Eswatini (PDF, 184KB)

Volunteering for development, health project in Kenya

Health care workers learning Kenya Sign language
Paul Wambugu/Obscuramedia

Volunteering for Development (VfD) health project, Kenya (PDF, 133KB)

Supporting scale of existing Health Interventions

Man with his family in Uganda
Michele Sibiloni

Supporting scale of existing health interventions in Karamoja, Uganda (PDF, 136KB)

Building access to health rights for women

Community volunteer collecting contraceptives to distribute
Columbus Mavhunga

Speak It Loud: Promoting health rights for women to end GBV, Zimbabwe (PDF, 112KB)

Embracing intersectionality for Health Equity and Justice

Community health worker Gahamanyi george with Sandes james who is deaf
Mussa

Make Way: Embracing intersectionality for Health Equity and Justice (PDF, 99KB)


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