# Haven of Dreams > Your Safe Space ## Posts - [Know Your Rights](https://havenofdreams.org/knowyourrights/): Women are powerful agents of change, and the far-reaching benefits of diversity and gender parity in leadership and decision-making are increasingly recognized in all spheres. - [Okoa Kairetu](https://havenofdreams.org/okoakairetu/): The issue of transactional sex between teenage girls and older men has been found to be common among girls who come from poor backgrounds. In most cases, the girls are not able to afford necessities like sanitary towels. ## Pages - [Publications](https://havenofdreams.org/publications/): NEWSLETTER REPORTS - [B-GETT](https://havenofdreams.org/b-gett/): Bridging the Gap in Ending Triple Threat - [My account](https://havenofdreams.org/my-account/) - [Checkout](https://havenofdreams.org/checkout/) - [Cart](https://havenofdreams.org/cart/) - [Shop](https://havenofdreams.org/shop/) - [hoem](https://havenofdreams.org/hoem/) - [Adolescents and Youth Empowerment](https://havenofdreams.org/adolescents-and-youth-empowerment/): Adolescents and Youth Empowerment Our model focuses on holistic mentorship in different spheres (Mental, Socioeconomic) at different ever-evolving ages. We deal with disempowering factors like families, community, and systemic challenges to give adolescents a voice. Direct Service We have been a link between youth living on the streets and youth-friendly services to provide referrals for reproductive health services. Outreach ❖ School outreaches to train different life skills using the She’s the first tool ❖ We have held community engagements dubbed, ‘Know Your Rights’ to create awareness of human rights and establish community champions for Human Rights Advocacy  Our advocacy is... - [Mental Health](https://havenofdreams.org/mental-health/): Mental Health Through psycho-social support, we use a model of play therapy to focus on the family from the youngest to the oldest member and deal with evolving ages. The main focus is helping individuals understand where they come from, what happened to them, and its impacts but learning skills on how they can liberate themselves. We curate activities to trigger mental wellness in different spaces like schools, youth centers, and hospitals. This is made possible through sports, play, art, and bibliotherapy. Direct Services ❖ Okoa Kairetu Program- A program focused on offering psychosocial support to teenage mothers and their... - [Home](https://havenofdreams.org/): About Us Haven Of Dreams Haven of Dreams is a community-based organization founded in Nakuru, Kenya in response to the growing need for mental health support, education access, and safe spaces for children and young people. Read more Our Vision A society that is holistically healthy and empowered.   Our Mission Empowering vulnerable communities through mentorship, Sexual Reproductive Health and Human rights education, mental health and psycho-social support by use of arts, sports and play and bibliotherapy Our values ▪ Recognize, respect, and respond to every individual with human dignity. ▪ Continually create and search for more efficient methods to... - [OUR TEAM](https://havenofdreams.org/our-team/) - [GENDER EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS](https://havenofdreams.org/gender-equality-and-human-rights/): Haven of Dreams ensure that equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men, girls and boys, gender diverse people are taken into consideration. Haven of Dreams has been part of the community actions to implement a program dubbed ‘Know your rights’ This has been made possible through Advancing Equality Through |Human Rights Education, funded by Equitas and WEL. The program has reached over 600 people through focused group discussion, community awareness forum and through chief baraza. During the community action women were elected in leadership positions to take roles and responsibilities in their community. Human Rights and Gender Equality... - [MENTAL WELLNESS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT](https://havenofdreams.org/mental-wellness/): During the youth week, 2020, we were able to conduct awareness creation on mental health to 100 youth on self care and living positively during Coivd-19. This was in collaboration with Black Coffee Network, Ajiry World suicide prevention, 2020 we created awareness on suicide and how self-care can prevent suicide cases. The activity was in collaboration with PDO and Black Coffee Network. We lit candles to remember those who died by suicide. Through radio Yetu we were able to create awareness and have an individual share his experience in suicidal attempts and how he was able to overcome During the... - [SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS](https://havenofdreams.org/sexual-reproductive-health-rights/): May 2020, during the onset of covid-19 and menstrual hygiene month got us delivering dignity packs to over 200 adolescent girls and young women from Kaptembwo and Free Area, streets families. Through this engagement we created awareness on menstrual hygiene and management and linked street families especially girls access reproductive health services including family planning services on pro-borno at Family Health Options Kenya (FHOK). We have created awareness on family planning services to street families especially after our encounter with them and the realization they were having unsafe sex and due to stigmatization, they were not able to access family... - [YOUTH EMPOWERMENT](https://havenofdreams.org/youth-empowerment/): Jan-March 2020 we held life skills training and coaching to youth vulnerable of going through radicalization and recruitment to violent extremism to over 30 youth in collaboration with Youth Bila noma. Some of the topics delivered were self esteem and decision making. Through this we saw one youth reforming and going to a rehabilitation centre. He has further rebuilt himself and his worth and is no longer defined by drugs. 2020 December, We brought together over 250 teenage and young adults from Nakuru East Sub-County specifically Nakuru East and Menengai Wards. This was made possible after a 100 bob campaign... - [Our Articles](https://havenofdreams.org/haven-of-dreams/) - [Donate](https://havenofdreams.org/donate/): Okoa Kairetu Wanja is a girl in her teens who held her first baby at 15 years. She is forced to drop out of school to take care of her baby. This makes her let go of her dreams and the desires she has in life. To raise her child, she is sometimes forced into commerical sex work, menial jobs and while at it, some men take advantage of her and she gets pregnant with her second child. Thinking she found a savior, she realizes she just will have to put up with the cycle of being a single teenage... - [Contact Us](https://havenofdreams.org/contact-us/): We’d love to hear from you Contact Us Kindly feel free to engage with and inquire more about our activities and how you, also can help with our cause.  Reach us through Kenya, Nakuru +254 724 774 469 +254 726 945 379 Social Networks @Hodsafespace @havenofdreams @havenofdreamske @havenofdreams Send us a Message - [Activities](https://havenofdreams.org/focus-area/): focus area Mental Health Through psycho-social support, we use a model of play therapy to focus on the family from the youngest to the oldest member and deal with evolving ages. The main focus is helping individuals understand where they come from, what happened to them, and its impacts but learning skills on how they can liberate themselves. We curate activities to trigger mental wellness in different spaces like schools, youth centers, and hospitals. This is made possible through sports, play, art, and bibliotherapy. Read More Adolescents and Youth Empowerment Adolescents and Youth Empowerment Our model focuses on holistic mentorship... - [Media](https://havenofdreams.org/media/): Street families inside their makeshift home made of polyethylene bags at Ziwani in Bondeni within the outskirts of Nakuru town. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Birth control no longer a bitter pill for Nakuru street mothers The dull mid-morning sun pierces through an already cloudy sky as Mary Nyambura cuddles her one-month-old baby as she waits to be served at Family Care Hospital. The 23-year-old is among tens of street mothers seeking family planning services. She tells The Standard that she cannot risk another pregnancy – she already has two children who are homeless and in most cases go without food. Click... - [About Us3](https://havenofdreams.org/about-us3/) - [Test](https://havenofdreams.org/test/):     - [No Gap](https://havenofdreams.org/no-gap/) - [Large Gap](https://havenofdreams.org/large-gap/) - [About Us](https://havenofdreams.org/about-us/): Our Story Our Story Haven of Dreams The current situation In Kenya, the Ministry of Health estimates that one in every four Kenyans (about 11.5 million people) lives with a mental health condition. Trauma is also a common thing that affects individuals. Intergenerational trauma- trauma that is passed from one generation to another is something that affects individuals unconsciously and affects the quality of life. In Kenya, intergenerational trauma passed from grandparents to children manifest and adversely affects the quality of life. 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