Train 4600 Indian girls as peer health leaders

Dear Adolescent Health Champion,

As we reflect on this past year, we are so proud of having supported over 4,000 adolescents via 100+ virtual, youth-led health education sessions. Our remarkable Champion peer educators are catalyzing a youth-led adolescent health movement across india, providing crucial physical and mental health support to their schoolmates and communities.

This month, we celebrated their efforts on International Children’s Day with a youth-led webinar. Rashi and Toheed, our youth moderators, facilitated a lively discussion with a panel of adolescent health experts, including a pediatrician, a school headmistress, a member of AHC’s Youth Advisory Board. They also helped lead a design-thinking workshop with our youth attendees about school re-openings in India, enabling us to gain crucial insights from youth about how AHC can best relaunch our in-person sessions with our partner schools in 2022.

 As schools reopen, we anticipate this will be a difficult transition period, as many youth have had limited physical and mental health support over the past year and a half while schools were shut. In addition, the impacts of the pandemic will have lingering effects on youth, their education, and their health for years to come. As such, supporting our youth with their health is as essential as ever. 

You can play a huge role in these efforts by donating on GivingTuesday! This November 30, from midnight to 11:59 p.m. EST, GlobalGiving is giving away $1 MILLION dollars to nonprofits as part of their #MoveAMillion campaign for #GivingTuesday. There’s never been a better time to give. The more you give on GivingTuesday, the larger share Adolescent Health Champions gets from the $1 million in bonus funds! Get ready: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/train-indias-next-generation-of-health-leaders/

With gratitude,

Dr. Priya Shankar & Ricky Sharma
Co-Founders, Adolescent Health Champions