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Miss Teen Botswana and Empowerment of Girls

In Botswana, the UN Resident Coordinator’s office, UNAIDS, UNICEF and UNFPA hosted a knowledge exchange advocacy seminar with 2023 Miss Teen Botswana contestants aged between 14 and 18 years and the organizers. The seminar provided a platform for girls to discuss pertinent national and global issues affecting young people, particularly young women. The contestants presented their charity projects and got insights from UN agencies on how to improve them ahead of the competition and for greater impact. Miss Teen Botswana presents an opportunity to leverage young women’s meaningful engagement and support their agency. The UN team shared with the contestants on Education Plus Initiative and encouraged them to be ambassadors and agents of change in reaching out to their peers on the importance of completion of secondary education and access to health services. The 25 contestants aged between 14 and 18 years and organizers of the 2023 Miss Teen Botswana to discussed pertinent national and global issues that young people, particularly young women, should be well informed of and meaningfully engaged. Helen Andreasson, Team Leader, Strategic Planning and Development Coordination at the UN Resident Coordinator’s office presented on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implored the young women to reflect on today’s challenges and encouraged them to reach out to peers to ensure their voices are heard. UNAIDS Botswana Country Director, Mr. Alankar Malviya, applauded the contestants for their bold decision to take part in the competition and pledged continued support to young people to ensure that they have access to health services and other experts who can equip them with knowledge and skills to improve their livelihoods and those around them.

UNAIDS

Published on March 22, 2023


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Education Plus Team
Botswana

The UN team shared with the contestants on Education Plus Initiative and encouraged them to be ambassadors and agents of change in reaching out to their peers on the importance of completion of secondary education and access to health services.

 

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