As a youth-led organization, we focus on young girls and teenage mothers in the rural communities of Kisumu. Our organization has faced communication barriers when conducting our mentorship sessions on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in the rural community. This limits the understanding of our girls and inhibits the amount of information given to the girls in rural areas. Our innovation will enable us to curb this challenge in the community by ensuring the girls retain the information on comprehensive sexual education, family planning services, and the present youth-friendly services.

The game involves a judge and players, and the role of the judge is to read out the situation as the players demystify the responses written and the image drawn below it while relating to their actual experiences. The players get to have three to five response cards at hand. This card game contains two types of cards: a situation card and a response card. The situation card deck has a question written that is technically a topic made simple for the girls to personalize the situation with their lives rather than an ambiguous scenario of the topic in the form of a game. Response card, on the other hand, contains different pictures and written response related to the responses to the particular situation. Response cards are many to fit the different perspectives of these girls and young mothers. The card game would be a great conversation starter to gauge the foundational knowledge of girls on their values, rights, puberty, menstruation, consent, body autonomy, boundaries, gender, and power, assess what the girls know about those topics, open uncomfortable but necessary conversations while observing girls having a challenge in expressing themselves and creating boundaries.

Art is an attractive tool that easily garners the attention of young people. This innovation is unique as it incorporates art and games using cards to teach about Sexual Reproductive Health. In most, if not all mentorships, only one approach has been used. It has either been art or teaching in the common scenarios. This has proven to have limitations because sometimes there is a challenge in the mentees losing attention during the session. Art can also not be applicable in all sessions. Therefore, through our card games containing pictorial images, we will be able to fully draw the attention of our beneficiaries while ensuring the information we have relayed will be retained with better understanding.

In Kisumu County, the prospected impact is that this improved mentorship would enable the young girls to know about issues around Sexual Reproductive Health. This would mean that the number of young girls getting pregnant would not only be reduced but also a ripple effect of the knowledge being spread to other people. Indirectly, a larger group of young girls would access the knowledge. The teenage mothers would be able to know how to access services from the youth-friendly facilities available. They would also be informed about the maternal services they should receive during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period.

Implementation plan and timelines- Each objective achieved will mean a key milestone covered throughout the implementation plan. In a period of two months, the advisory council that will include the alumni mentees of the organization will formulate the topics around SRH that directly relate to Ksiumu. The second objective will be to seek out the graphics for the response cards which would take a period of 3-5 months. The cards would then be printed out and mentorship sessions would be ready.
Necessary resources- Including an advisory council to help formulate the situation questions and response cards is important, ICT technicians are also important in this innovation to be able to develop the graphics images for the response cards.
Challenges and risks- The challenge that seems prevalent is the card games being ruined under different or getting lost.
Strategies to mitigate the challenges- We would curb this by being able to access it virtually and print it out whenever.

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