Adolescent mentorship & community care
Growing confidence. Strengthening care.
Lunga-Lunga Community-centered Adolescents Resilience and Enrichment
Dada Mkubwa’s largest project to date connects mentorship, creativity and community care. L-Care is designed to help adolescents—especially girls—stay engaged in school, make informed life choices and build pathways towards leadership and economic empowerment.
Lunga-Lunga Sub-County · Kwale County, Kenya
Explore the program
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Young people need more than information: they need trusted relationships and environments where they feel safe, heard and supported. L-Care responds to gaps in consistent mentorship, adolescent health information and coordination between families, schools and protection services.
The design brings together 120 learners—60 girls and 60 boys—with local women mentors, teachers, parents and caregivers. It is rooted in Dada Mkubwa’s feminist values of dignity, inclusion, solidarity and care, building on community strengths rather than creating a separate support system.
How L-Care works
Local young women are at the heart of the design. Twelve mentors receive training in facilitation, safeguarding and psychosocial support, with ongoing guidance from Dada Mkubwa. School sessions are planned twice a month over six months, supported by teachers.
Drawing, role-play, poetry, song and peer discussion make space for self-expression. Learning covers life and study skills, leadership, mental wellbeing, personal safety, and age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Four planned dialogue sessions bring parents and caregivers into the conversation. Positive communication, supportive parenting and early recognition of concerns help connect what young people learn at school with care at home.
Schools, families, health services and community protection actors are brought into a shared approach. The aim is to clarify roles and co-create accessible referral pathways for sexual and gender-based violence, with confidentiality and survivor-centred care guiding responses.
From the field
These public updates record delivered activities and sit alongside—not inside—the programme design and targets above.
L-Care sessions in Lunga-Lunga use listening, questions and life-skills conversations to create safe learning spaces.
View Instagram source(DZmvjLagPbT)Twelve selected mentors took part in a three-day onboarding covering empathy, safe spaces, SRHR, consent and boundaries.
View Instagram source(DXWpmEOip1n)Parent forums in Mtune, Kasarani and Makwatani explored positive parenting and safeguarding through discussion, role play and anonymous learner questions.
View Instagram source(Da8ATMsCihL)An L-Care stakeholder meeting in Lunga-Lunga discussed adolescent protection, community challenges and referral pathways together.
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#045L-Care aims to strengthen both young people’s confidence and the relationships that protect them. Learner, family and mentor feedback will guide reflection and improvements for future mentorship cycles.
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#043Community photographs will be shared with appropriate consent and care for young people’s privacy.
Are you a school, community ally or prospective partner? Connect with Dada Mkubwa to discuss mentorship, collaboration and support for L-Care.
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