Services provided by NUEYS - Eritrea

Services provided by NUEYS

The National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students (NUEYS) provides the following services:

- Reproductive Health Education and Counselling for Youth 
- Emergency Reproductive Health Services
- Strengthening Reproductive Health Service Delivery Capacity 
- Strengthening the existing youth recreational & health center and established a new youth friendly health service. 
- Providing an access for education, information on HIV/ AIDS, STI, and any problem related to reproductive health.  this project benefited Eritrean youth & adolescents.
ESMG, hotline service, telephone service of the VCTs of the NUEYS.

The NUEYS has Gender Education Program and also provides extra tutorial class to girls. This program targets those girls who have socio-economics problems, as result of which are low performing academically. This is done in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. Other programs include; health related SRHR, GBV, anti FGM campaigns.

• NUEYS runs a hotline counselling service on health, law and social-economic issues through volunteering youth. The hotline staff have been trained on different topics e.g. health, socio-economic, law etc. this training aimed at providing the volunteers with adequate, updated, and relevant information to raise their capacity and improve the service delivery.  

• The volunteers usually plan, execute and evaluate the provision of telephone counseling services. They host guests in Radio NUMA, write weekly newspaper articles and conduct weekly meetings.

• The service is strengthened through the provision of collection of reference materials and other reference books. 

General information on health services/HIV&AIDS

• Advocacy on condom use & improve access to condoms
• Establish posttest clubs among youth
• Produce & distribute Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials for awareness program
• Provide access to counseling and voluntary testing
• Mobilizing Communities to Reduce Reproductive Health (RH) challenges       
• Produce materials and organize workshops on morbidity and mortality as related to RH.
• Raise awareness of women on RH using promotional materials such putting designs on shopping bags, posters and booklets.
• Develop relevant IEC materials such as Posters, Brochures that contain sexual reproductive health messages
• Conduct BCC peer group education for youth.
• SRH information dissemination through seminars, music and drama. 
• Strengthens technical capacities of all service providers, to provide gender sensitive information, counseling & services on safe motherhood, child spacing, RTI/STI/HIV/AIDS & sub-fertility. 
• Organizes peer educator training courses
• Provides IEC/IPC training courses to youth & community leaders
• Supports practices that are beneficial to improving RH status through:
• Ensuring availability of appropriate RH messages through multi-media channels & in particular radio and traditional means of communication such as community gathering.
• Enhancing community competence & involvement, especially male & female leaders, elders, and parents 
• Partnering with religious groups in provision of information on RH and particular HIV/STD   
• Providing clinical and counseling services 
• Providing access to counseling and voluntary testing

Otehr facilities or services for the benefit of women

Workshops, short-term courses such as entrepreneurship, microcredit schemes etc.

The NUEYS has implemented a number of advocacies on gender responsive programmes in:
i) promotion of women and girls in education and training;
ii) women, power and decision making;
iii) women and health;
iv) women the economy and poverty;
v) human rights of women and violence against women.