Online forum targets youth with facts on safe sex, career

The nature of how people relate to one another has changed as a large number of youths engage online and on mobile platform.

This has motivated Youth4life to come up with web and mobile-based platform to educate youth in Kenya and the region on issues about their sexual reproductive health.

The platform seeks to help youths surmount different challenges they experience in their day-to-day lives. It creates an opportunity for the participants to interact and chat on sexual health, relationships, education and career.

The approach, which is known as networked or connected learning, aims to transform the way the youths think, live, work and learn.

The website encourages the youths to get together online and empower one another as well as help stop the spread of HIV.

Africa Alive executive director Walter Odera one of the creators of the idea says in the past they would reach the youths through peer education but new technologies have made most of them shy away from traditional forums, but instead engage with one another through online and mobile platforms.

“At times when we get to schools for peer education programmes, most of the youths would not come out for the talks instead they wanted a platform that they access the information directly,” he said.

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