The concept of WASH, groups together water supplysanitation, and hygiene because the impacts of deficiencies in each area overlap strongly. Lack of WASH facilities can prevent students from attending school, impose a burden on women, and diminish productivity. Worldwide, at least 500 million women and girls lack adequate, safe, and private facilities for managing menstrual hygiene. Addressing these deficiencies together can achieve a strong positive impact on public health by improving health, life expectancy, student learning, gender equality, and other important issues of international development. Teen Africa intervenes in this area by carrying out school based trainings and awareness campaigns on the importance of WASH and proper menstrual hygiene management education.

Protecting the environment starts with pollution control. Teen Africa is of the view that Young people can play an active role in protecting and improving the environment through pollution control. It works with youths to help reduce waste by training youths to pay attention to minor details in their daily lives and by applying the greening knowledge at home and schools; with a view to help market greener communities. Engaging youth in environmental protection not only creates direct impact on changing youth behaviors and attitudes, but could possibly influence their parents, relatives, families and society at large.

Human trafficking and Irregular Migration has become the bane of our society with  young people migrating illegally and/or being trafficked to Europe and America purportedly in search of greener pastures. In the process of such often hazardous ventures, these young people fall into all manner of hardships that oftentimes leads to slavery, starvation, rape and sometimes outright death. To forestall this, Teen Africa adopts an early intervention approach to mitigating this problem by creating awareness and training adolescents, teenagers and youth on the futility and hazards of irregular migration and human trafficking so as to deter them from seeing it as an option for improved livelihoods.

Teen Africa provides co-curricular activities to assist provide wholesome education for young people. The fundamental purpose of education is to properly socialize individuals into society’s cultural values and belief through gaining knowledge, inculcate all forms of proper conduct as well as to acquire technical competency. The importance of education to youths manifests itself in terms of the need to cultivate the youths of society into mature individuals. Being their growing stage, the youthful age is the time to develop valued principles of life, make career decisions and begin the pursuit of one's goals within the fields of interest. Education should therefore aim at helping an individual form a skill set that develops expertise in the areas of his/her interest.

 The Teenage Development for Africa (Teen Africa) is a pan African not-for-profit, gender based, education youth development organization.

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