Empowered Youth Program

This project mitigated the impact of HIV and improved the health and wellbeing of vulnerable children and adolescents through the delivery of high-impact, evidence-informed, and age-appropriate interventions customized to children's needs. The project used a family-centered approach to bolster social and educational outcomes for vulnerable children and their households in high HIV-burden districts across two provinces of Zambia, Copperbelt and North Western, in close collaboration with the government of Zambia. The project aimed to ensure that children are healthy by improving access to health and HIV services; safe by improving child protection and prevention of violence; stable by improving household economic security and linkages to social protection; and schooled by improving school retention and progression.