Rise Young Women's Clubs

Rise Young Women’s Clubs is an initiative by Soul City for Social Justice to create and maintain young women’s Clubs which will provide a platform for young women to support each other, learn together and build their social capital to create a safe and healthy future – particularly in relation to preventing HIV infection. The programme works in high incidence focus areas in five high incidence provinces with a total of 18 000 young women.
The objectives of the clubs are to build social cohesion, work as a group to do projects, support each other, and build self-efficacy and resilience, to ultimately prevent HIV, mitigate its impact and enable safer choices. To this end key elements of a combination prevention approach will be promoted. The skills and knowledge gained, and the self-efficacy built will be amplified at local level through collective community actions. The programme targets vulnerable young women especially those residing in informal settlements.