Accountability

What has actually changed

Reach is not impact. This page reports both, alongside the parts that are not working yet.

young people reached: 2,400
schools partnered: 18
volunteers active: 96
communities served: 24

By programme

Where the effort went

Each programme is judged on one measure, chosen because it is the thing that would genuinely change if the programme worked. Reach figures are easier to collect and tell you far less.

Menstrual health and puberty: Measured by what girls can correctly name about their own bodies, before the session and again a term later.
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health: Measured by adolescents who can name a service they would actually use, and say where it is.
Family planning and prevention: Measured by referrals that turn into a first appointment, confirmed with the clinic.
Maternal health and reproductive rights: Measured by how many of the common local myths a group still holds when we come back.

In their words

What the work looks like up close

Numbers say how much. People say whether it mattered.

“Before, my daughter would stay at home three or four days and I would not ask her why. I did not know how to start. Somebody came to her school and explained it to her, and then she came home and explained it to me. Now we talk about it, and she goes to school.”
AkosuaParent, Nsawam
“I came for one Saturday because a friend asked me to make up the numbers. What kept me was the question box. You read forty slips of paper written by children who had nobody at all to ask, and then you come back the following Saturday.”
KwameVolunteer since 2024

What is not working yet

Three things, honestly. Every programme runs through schools, which means girls who have already left school are the hardest for us to reach and are the ones who need this most. Our family planning sessions are attended almost entirely by women, while the men who hold most of the decisions stay away. And a young person can leave a session ready to ask a clinician for advice and still not go, because the clinic is somewhere their mother might be recognised.

We also spent most of last year counting the wrong thing. Pupils who sat through a session is easy to count and tells you almost nothing, so the measure is now what a group can correctly name when we return a term later. Figures from before the change are not comparable with the ones after it. We would rather break the series than present it as continuous.

How we count

A person is counted once per programme per year, however many times we see them. Reached means somebody who sat through a full session, not every child in a school we visited and not a passing assembly. What a group knows is checked at the start of a session and again a term later, using the same questions both times. Totals are compiled at the end of each school year from attendance sheets signed by head teachers and clinic staff, and our auditor checks them against those sheets before anything appears on this page.

Fund the next term.

Every figure on this page started as somebody's donation or somebody's Saturday.