| Grantee Name | Activity Description | Implementing Partner |
| Care for Life
(CFL), Gombe |
The Care For Life project aims at improving the health and well being of youth (10 -24 years) in Gombe State, Northwest of Nigeria through increased access to quality adolescent reproductive health information and services. Two of the project communities - Billiri and Kaltungo - are transit towns for long distance travelers from the North to the East or vice versa are therefore social action points for the thousands of rural people migrating to the urban cities or those visiting their rural homes from big cities. These encourage high rate of sexual activities, especially among young people. These could be responsible for the high incidence of teenage pregnancies, unsafe abortion, STIs and HIV/AIDS infections -and other adolescent reproductive health problems among young people in the project areas. To address the issues of teenage pregnancy, abortions and STIs/HIV/AIDS, the project is undertaking Peer Health Education and provision of Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) services for both in and out of school youth. Other project activities will include advocacy visits to opinion leaders on ARH issues, Training/Capacity building for project staff and clinic staff, and improving parent-child communication. Several behaviour change communication strategies e.g. drama and concerts, community rallies, etc are also being carried out. | Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) |