Changing Lives: One Girl, One Boy at a Time

Elle Peut Naidim—EPN

anzania's leading youth empowerment organization transforming education through emotional wellness, mental health, and self-advocacy

Our Impact Numbers

How We Create Lasting Change

Build Agency From Within Emotional wellness and mental health are the foundation. We equip students with self-awareness, confidence, and resilience to navigate external challenges.

Create Safe Spaces Gender-transformative programs where girls and boys can express themselves freely, challenge societal norms, and develop authentic leadership.

Engage Entire Communities Sustainable change requires everyone. We train teachers, engage parents, and mobilize community leaders as allies in youth empowerment.

WHY WE'RE DIFFERENT

Traditional Approach

  • Focuses on infrastructure and material resources

  • One-time interventions

  • Top-down implementation

  • Treats symptoms

EPN Approach

  • Centers emotional wellness and personal agency

  • Long-term mentorship and safe spaces

  • Community-driven, culturally grounded

  • Transforms root causes

EPN Programs
Five Programs, One Mission, Ensuring Every Child Finishes Strong

  • Happy Period, Happy Girls

    A comprehensive menstrual health program that transforms period shame into dignity and confidence. Through age-appropriate education, reusable pad distribution, and safe space dialogues, we equip girls with knowledge and resources, boys with empathy, and teachers and parents with tools to sustain change. Since 2020, we've reached over 22,000 girls and 8,600 boys across 72 schools, ensuring no girl misses school due to her period.

  • The Last Kilometer

    An after-school mentorship and life skills club that walks with adolescent girls and boys through the hardest stretch of their educational journey. Through personalized mentorship, self-awareness sessions, and gender-transformative safe spaces, we help students build agency, navigate barriers like early marriage, period stigma, and mental health challenges, and stay in school to reach their full potential.

  • Msichana Camp

    An annual five-day transformative holiday camp for adolescent girls aged 9-15 that serves as a launchpad for leadership, resilience, and unstoppable dreams. Girls connect with inspiring women mentors, meet peers from diverse backgrounds, and build confidence through hands-on learning in self-awareness, body literacy, mental health, leadership, and creative expression. Over four years, we've empowered 100+ girls with 90% showing increased self-confidence and goal-setting abilities.

  • Mvulana Camp

    A groundbreaking five-day program creating intentional safe spaces where boys can explore emotions, develop confidence, and embrace their journey to manhood. Through mentorship with positive male role models, reflection sessions, and skill-building activities, boys confront societal pressures, build emotional intelligence, and develop the resilience and leadership skills to become purpose-driven young men who champion gender equity and challenge discrimination in their communities.

  • Love Before You Teach

    A Train-the-Trainer life skills mentorship program that equips educators with empathy, mindfulness, and practical skills to transform classrooms into places of healing, growth, and inspiration. Through hands-on sessions covering WHO-aligned life skills education, EPN's Life Skills Guideline & Manual, and mindfulness exercises, teachers learn that sustainable educational change begins with holding space for their own hearts before guiding their students through emotional and academic challenges.

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View fullsize Today in partnership with SGE, we trained and provided reusable sanitary Pads to 223 girls at Oldonyowas Secondary School, transforming lives through Menstrual Health Hygiene information and expanding access to long lasting period products is our cor
View fullsize The goal is to have them stay longer in school, attend school at all times and improve their academic performance. We do this through provision of the right menstrual information and reusable sanitary pads
View fullsize Using her story to impact the next generation. Hawa Kipilili demonstrates the relevance of Proper MHM practices in improving school attendance, academic performance and achievement of visions and dreams
View fullsize At Enguik primary school Monduli. We had the opportunity to meet this awesome generation of young women full of dreams and visions!!! With the right Menstrual health information. They each also received a pack of reusable sanitary towels to last them
View fullsize As the new school term begins, EPN looks forward to continuing our impactful work with holistic Menstrual Health Hygiene and management with our wonderful community partners. Between January and June of this year, we provided reusable sanitary pads a
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