YouthRISE has been at the forefront of advocating for evidence-based policies and programs that are people centred, by engaging critical stakeholders to drive policy reform, social development, and improve health outcome for young people.
Impacted with sexual reproductive health information, education, and services.
Impacted with integrated HIV Education, Prevention, and Testing Services.
Reached with drug, prevention, treatment, and counselling programs.
YouthRISE Nigeria primarily works to empower young people through advocacy and community engagement for HIV prevention with the Government and other stakeholders for policy reform, program implementation, and research. We continue championing drug policy reform and ensuring better health outcomes for most affected communities.
I used to work as a security officer in one of the banks in Abuja. One day after work I was with some of my friends and we were smoking cannabis. Suddenly we sighted the police coming for us and we all ran. Unfortunately for me I got arrested while the others escaped. I was detained in one cell for three months and after I was transferred to another location where I spent nine months. My experience in detention was traumatizing. While in detention I learnt a lot of negative...
My parent knew I was doing drugs and it was getting out of hand and I had a couple of problems with my education. My parent got angry and was advised by someone, whom the only place he knew was a place where they torture someone to repent. Torture in the sense that, in your first three months you get flogged, handcuffed both hands and legs, and put in a room where there’s no movement. Your hand and legs get swollen...
Artvocacy is a YouthRISE publications that tells the story of women's struggle through Art. Women around the world are disproportionately impacted by gender-based violence which manifests in form of sexual coercion, abuse, rape, female genital mutilation, child/early marriage, sexual harassment and assault. The publication revealed their struggles through paintings created by these women
