Specific goals were:

1. To increase awareness and education at the community level on the negative effects of early marriage;
2. To promote girls’ education through the provision of educational subsidies;
3. To provide girls social support to achieve their educational goals;
4. To offset the economic gains made in marriage transactions through the provision of community incentives.

The project was implemented in Kilifi County, within selected sub-locations in the divisions ofVitengeni, Chonyi, Bamba/Ganze, Kaloleni, and Magarini.

The project sites were identified based on the following factors:

• accessibility,
• population density,
• potential contamination,
• and potential influence of tourism based on proximity to the ocean.

Although the sites vary in geographical size, each has approximately 2,000 unmarried girls between the ages of 10 and 17. Activities were implemented in identified locations only.

Achievements

1. 

   In our intervention strategies we carried out community awareness through Chiefs and Assistant-Chiefs’ baraza meetings, promotion of education through educational support, and community -level economic incentives to delay early marriage.

2. Working with girls in school and outside school and seen considerable drop in early marriages.
3. Female mentors selected by SCOPE were working with the girls outside school for the education promotion.
4. With the girls in school, Smart Clubs were formed where we have female teachers as patrons who assist the girls.
5. Conducted discussions on issues of Psycho-Social Life Skills, academic performance, Communication and Relationships, Hygiene and Sanitation, Understanding Adolescence, HIV and aids, Early Marriage, Financial Literacy, Understanding Gender and Gender Based Violence