As children and young adults in Tanzania are forced to stay home after the National schools closure to prevent the spread of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), there are now more subjected to frequent harassment and abuse from their family members and neighbors. During this time more children and young adults especially girls and women are subjected to violence, trauma and psychological stress. We have already observed in Ruvuma, 100 girls have been impregnated in these three months of school closure. If the issue of sexual abuse and harassment continues we will see the rise of child pregnancies, child marriages and school dropouts rates exponentially. Mwajuma Simama is a series of animation that aims to educate girls and young women about Sexual assault and abuse and how to deal with it. Our content will educate girls and young women about what sexual abuse is in a simplest and relatable manner possible. ICT Tools used: The animation will show a teenage girl main character called Mwajuma who experiences sexual abuse in her homes and her community, the series of events of the animation script will focus to educate about what constituents and is defined as sexual abuse, discuss important topics such as consent and discourage victim blaming. It will also encourage youths to speak out and engage their parents and guardians who can help. We plan to display the content of our animations through OVAH website (www.ourcries.org), social media platforms, and partner with e-learning platforms, TV programs and Radio Channels programs as we also plan to tailor our content to audios. However, we realize that only awareness and education isn’t effective enough to combat the problem of sexual abuse, OVAH will expand to provide a online and offline reporting service for sexual harassment such that the victims can be able to report these abuse and harassment and get the right help.

http://www.ourcries.org/

• United Republic of Tanzania

• Youth
• Women

A 2004 WHO review of research estimated the global prevalence of childhood sexual victimization to be about 27% among girls (WHO 2012). If financially equipped, we can make the animation multilingual and roll it in other countries.

It easy to attract business to advertise if there is an audience, Ads can be used as a revenue model for Mwajuma Simama!

This project creates online education materials to educate girls and young women about sexual assault, which is promoting WSIS values in the community such as C3. Access to information and knowledge and C9. Media.