LIDYA KASIWA
Peer educator, monitoring and evaluation team
Team: Black Mamba
Joined MTG in 2004

Staying at home idle, especially after completing your 0-level, sometimes sounds boring...... so? I made what I can term as a noble decision to join MTG based in Kilifi. Way back when I was in high school I used to play football but not with keen interest as I had the mentality that it was only being played by men. But with MTG this mentality in me has faded away and I am now one of the best player in MTG’s team. For sure girls in MTG are really doing better, until we have impressed the community and more girls are joining every year. MTG has really helped me not indulge in risky issues such as using drugs and involving myself in early marriage, this is because I am always occupied doing different activities, which keeps me very busy.

Being in MTG I’m not just a player but also I’m doing monitoring and evaluation and peer education which I would not have got this opportunities if not through MTG. MTG has really opened up my mind and has made a difference in my life because Kilifi girls have been left behind and denied our opportunities, but MTG has brought light on us in our communities in Kilifi.

This organization has made me to be more ambitious and focused as now I know I can do better thing in my life than men not as before. Through MTG I have gained confidence and organization skills because I have been given more opportunities to organize and manage different issues at hand. Honestly, I wasn’t that perfect at public speaking but bravo MTG! I am able to stand before people, talk to them on different issues finding facts on them, such as information based on HIV and AIDS, reproductive health and decision making especially to out of school girls, primary and secondary school girls and women. So far so good MTG has enabled me to interact with different people, from different races and also I have traveled far and wide in the country and I am grateful about these achievements.