Firelight Foundation

Child rights and child protectionfirelight funded and supported 10 community-based organizations in malawi to catalyze and strengthen community-driven systems change to fight child marriage in their communities. Grantees facilitated their communities to analyze and take action to influence the different systems that affect factors related to child marriage, such as family economic security, girls' access to schooling, teenage pregnancy, norms and practices around sexuality, access to sexual and reproductive health, and expanding girls' own visioning of their future opportunities. Firelight also funded and supported 7 community-based organizations in kenya to work with their communities to identify the priority issues facing youth in their communities and carry out action plans to address those issuessuch as increasing youth access to gainful employment and higher incomes, reducing widespread drug and substance abuse issues, connecting youth to community mentors, and supporting youth adaptation to climate change.