Following the release of the ASRH Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings: 2020 Edition, the IAWG ASRH Sub-Working Group wanted to prioritize bringing young people's voices to the decision-making table. The IAWG ASRH SWG recently finished its application process to select four young people to serve as co-chairs for the next year. The four co-chairs are split into two teams, with at least one adolescent representative per team. Each team will serve for seven months before handing over to the next team. Let us introduce our young person co-chairs for the next year!
Jivitesh Gupta
Age: 11
Location: Kurukshetra, India
Jivitesh is a member of Policy Working Group - Stepping Towards Enhancing Policy Structures (PWG-STEPS), which is a youth-led, youth-run volunteer group anchored by The YP Foundation, New Delhi. He is passionate about the adolescent health and well-being of adolescents in general. He advocates for meaningful participation, capacity building, and representation of very young adolescents (10-14 years) in particular, in the various activities, policies, and programs meant for them.
Modong Manuela Mogga
Age: 29
Location: South Sudan
Modong is a gender and adolescent health practitioner working with Amref Health Africa South Sudan as a project officer on a sexuality and reproductive health and rights project funded by UNFPA. She envisions a world where adolescents and youth are enlightened, energetic, and empowered with full awareness of their sexual health and readiness to spearhead the solutions of their reproductive health and rights.
Fokou Ngoumo Hilux
Age: 17
Location; Cameroon
Fokou works as a committee member of MIFALI, an adolescent-led movement coached and mentored by Women for a Change, Cameroon. He is passionate about adolescent leadership, gender equality, SRHR, and Computer science. He has considerately helped in fostering the agenda for Generation Equality in Dschang, Cameroon.
Bharti Kannan
Age: 34
Location: India
Bharti is the founder of Boondh, an organization that works in menstrual health and hygiene. Her contributions have enabled over 200 thousand menstruators in India to understand their bodies, own their lived experiences, and seek health, dignity, and agency with respect to menstruation. She is further passionate about SRHR and its effects and needs in disasters and conflicts, as well as feminist-participatory new-age funding in gender-based work.