Awareness

b) School Based outreach

• This is inclusive of all children in schools which RFHAF conducts in-collaboration with the Ministry of Health & Medical Services and the Careers TEST Unit of the Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts.
• Topics covered are Sexuality, Puberty and Adolescents, Me Circle and Safe Space, No-Go-Tell, Traffic Lights, Safety Network, Steps to Relationship, Private and Public Parts, Behaviours and Places, Ok and Not OK Touches.
• School outreach is implemented at Primary school level from Year 1 – 8 and secondary level from Year 9 – 13 throughout Fiji [as far as the Lau group and Rotuma]
• RFHAF also conducts similar awareness to preschoolers’ (five year olds)

c) Business houses and workplaces

• A new initiative that RFHAF began in 2018
• This is implemented in partnership with the Fiji Cancer Society
• Sessions covered are within the scope of Women’s and Men’s Sexual Health (STIs, Reproductive Tract Infections, Reproductive Cancers, and Infertility) Sessions are carried out in all offices (Fiji Development Bank, Kontiki Finance,
• BSP, ANZ, Digicel and Hoteliers) in Fiji and all expenses are met by the business partners
• The offices are usually on the two main islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu)

d) Public Events

• RFHAF celebrates three important events yearly
• SRH Week, is a RFHAF initiative in promoting healthy relationships among young people and coincides with Valentine’s Day. The theme for this year’s SRH Week is Healthy Relationships, Everyday is Consent Day. RFHAF implemented EVERYDAY CONSENT CAMPUSES program, whereby it set up booths in campuses where students are able to access information on Healthy Relationship. The week concluded with the Journey of Love Walk on Valentine’s Day, whereby young people were able to access SRH services. February is also Family Health Month in Fiji.
• Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is an event RFHAF celebrates annually to address myths and stigma that is associated with sexual gender based violence. RFHAF organizes activities such as What were you wearing exhibit, in reconstructing the survivors outfit when assaulted to address the blame around survivors deserving to be assaulted because of the clothes they wear. Also celebrated on the 25 th of April is Denim Day (everyone who celebrates SAAM with RFHAF comes in Denim) whereby a judge in Italy had informed the court that the 18-year-old girl could not have been raped by her driving instructor because she was wearing denim, hence she would have assisted him in removing her clothes. This year’s theme will be ‘I ASK’
• 16 Days of Activism begins on the 25 th of November (Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls) and ends on the 10 th of December (Human Rights Day). RFHAF young people would reenact Gender Based Violence, Intimate Partner Violence on the streets of Suva, Lautoka and Labasa to raise awareness on the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It also provides orange balloons (the numbers of orange balloons represent the reported statistics of women and girls in Fiji who may have undergone some kind of violence in that year), orange ribbons, petition on support of the elimination of violence against women and girls to be signed and orange flyers with information on violence against women and girls to business houses and stakeholders. RFHAF also celebrates all other international Days that falls within the 16 Days of Activism and ends with Human Rights Day celebration which RFHAF celebrates in collaboration with it partners namely Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre, Medical Services Pacific, to name a few.