In addition to that,WAYAN advocates for the affordability, accessibility of female condoms by sensitizing the community to reduce HIV prevalence among young women through an initiative that uses paper dolls.
This initiative use a paper doll called Zawadi Smartlove.
Zawadi is a paper doll, and there are thousands more like her. She is the heart of the Female Condom Paper Doll campaign of the Universal Access to Female Condoms Joint Programme. The campaign aims to combine awareness-raising in different countries and advocacy efforts at national and United Nations level.
People from all over the world write down their message demanding female condoms on Zawadi paper dolls. These dolls are then collected and made into a long chain, representing the worldwide demand for female condoms. The strings of dolls send the powerful message that there is a great demand for female condoms, from people all over the world. Female condoms can help to solve two of the greatest challenges the world faces today: HIV/Aids and unintended pregnancy.
The NGOs participating in the campaign use the paper dolls in their sensitization and awareness- raising meetings. The participants of such meetings can then have an active role by writing their message on a paper doll knowing that these messages will be presented to local as well as international leaders later on. The Paper Doll Campaign had 40 NGOs in 2011 participating in for instance Argentina, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Thailand, United States of America, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. These organizations will continue to participate in 2012.
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