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AUTHOR
Ingrid Espegren Dalsmo
«Now I feel that I can reach somewhere» : School dropout girls and Health Promotion Campaigns in Tanzania; a qualitative study
Master's thesis Clinical health sciences ME520 - University of Agder 2018 Konfidensiell til / confidential until 01.07.2023
“Now I Feel That I Can Achieve Something”: Young Tanzanian Women’s Experiences of Empowerment by Participating in Health Promotion Campaigns
The United Nations (UN) emphasizes that health promotion, education, and empowerment of women are all goals that will help to end poverty. In eastern rural Tanzania, young women who dropped out of school now take an active part in health promotion campaigns in schools and villages through the youth program “Innovative and Productive Youth”, which is administered by the nongovernmental organization Hatua na Maendeleo (HAMA). The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how some of these young Tanzanian women experience participating in health promotion campaigns. A hermeneutic phenomenology design with focus group interviews was used. The study’s participants were nine young women betwee…