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TICAH Our Bodies, Our Choices Our Bodies, Our Choices, a project to encourage
more honest and informed approaches to s*xual life
for all ages.

All of our work at TICAH is also founded on a belief in choice.

What happens when someone finally feels safe enough to speak?Through body mapping, open conversations and community supp...
05/10/2026

What happens when someone finally feels safe enough to speak?

Through body mapping, open conversations and community support, we’re creating spaces where people can talk about violence, process what they’ve experienced and find out where to turn for help.

And we’re seeing real change: 87% of children showed greater confidence in recognising and responding to violence.

That’s why conversations about prevention, healing, culture and survivor-centred support matter.

Read the story: http://www.ticahealth.org/post/creating-spaces-to-heal-speak-and-be-heard

TICAH is at the SVRI Forum 2026! Violence does not end when the immediate incident is over. Its impact can stay with sur...
05/10/2026

TICAH is at the SVRI Forum 2026!

Violence does not end when the immediate incident is over. Its impact can stay with survivors, affecting their mental health, relationships, sense of safety and ability to move forward. This is why research and conversations about prevention, healing, culture and survivor-centred support matter.

This week, Caroline Ngala, Corazon Ayoma and Fredrick Omutiti are representing TICAH at hashtag , sharing experiences and learning from our work and contributing to important conversations on survivor-centred mental health and psychosocial support, gender-based violence prevention, and the role culture can play as both a risk and a source of protection.

For us, this work is about more than responding to violence. It is about listening to survivors, creating spaces for healing, challenging the conditions that allow violence to continue, and working alongside communities to build safer futures.

We are proud to see the experiences and learning from our communities contributing to global research, conversations and action.

If you’re at SVRI Forum 2026, look out for Caroline, Corazon and Fredrick in their sessions on 6th to 8th October.

"Shine your light, everyone has a light." This belief shapes everything we do. Every person, community, and tradition we...
21/09/2026

"Shine your light, everyone has a light."
This belief shapes everything we do. Every person, community, and tradition we work with, it carries knowledge and value worth celebrating. Everyone has a light. Our work is making space for it to shine.

When young mothers know their rights, everything changes.We walk alongside young mothers, building knowledge, creating s...
17/09/2026

When young mothers know their rights, everything changes.

We walk alongside young mothers, building knowledge, creating space for honest conversations, and supporting them to speak up about their own reproductive health.

This year young mothers have already reported feeling more confident about their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, young women who started as learners and grew into advocates for themselves.

This is what it looks like when young women are truly supported.

We are proud of every single one of them.

Our booth wasn't just a booth.It became a place where people paused.Sometimes they came with questions.Sometimes they ca...
03/07/2026

Our booth wasn't just a booth.

It became a place where people paused.

Sometimes they came with questions.

Sometimes they came with stories.

Sometimes they came simply because they were curious.

Those conversations became some of our favourite moments from ARJC 2026.

One person wanted to talk about helping peer mentors have honest conversations about s*x.

Another asked how culture and reproductive health could possibly belong in the same discussion.

Someone else challenged us to think differently about community care.

Others shared stories from their own countries, reminding us that while our contexts differ, many of our struggles, and hopes are remarkably similar.

Those exchanges reminded us why TICAH approaches health the way we do.

Health is never just about medicine.

It is about culture.

It is about relationships.

It is about trust.

It is about creating spaces where people feel safe enough to ask difficult questions, and where those questions are met with curiosity instead of judgment.

One quote from the conference kept coming back to us:

"None of us are free until all of us are free. Reproductive justice is not just about choice, it is about body, dignity and freedom."

Every conversation at our booth felt like another way of understanding what those words really mean.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by.

You reminded us that sometimes the most meaningful sessions at a conference aren't listed on the programme.

They're the ones we create together.

"The chain of freedom connects our history and future. It is our job to ensure it does not break where we are." Marlene ...
02/07/2026

"The chain of freedom connects our history and future. It is our job to ensure it does not break where we are." Marlene Fried

That sentence has stayed with us since ARJC 2026.

At TICAH, we often speak about indigenous knowledge, how communities carry wisdom across generations and how lasting change begins by recognising what already exists.

Listening to Marlene, we realised movements work in much the same way.

None of us begins the work.

We inherit it.

From the women who organised before us.
From communities that resisted before policies recognised their rights.
From health workers, activists, artists, researchers, and elders who kept asking difficult questions long before they became mainstream.

Our responsibility is not to start the chain.

It is to strengthen it.

That is what ARJC reminded us.

Whether we were speaking on panels, moderating discussions, or learning alongside others, we were all adding another link to a movement that stretches far beyond a single conference.

The real measure of ARJC will not be the conversations we had in Nairobi.

It will be what those conversations become in our communities.


01/07/2026

By the end of each day at ARJC 2026, we had developed a ritual.

We'd find each other and compare notes.

The funny thing was, we'd rarely spent the day together.

Some of us had been moderating conversations. Others were speaking on panels. Some had spent hours at the TICAH booth. Others had disappeared into sessions with notebooks full of questions and ideas.

Yet somehow, we'd all experienced the same conference.

It's funny what stays with you.

The buses waiting outside before 7 a.m., already full of people ready for another day.

The sound of drums and dancing from the opening evening carrying into conversations the next morning.

Walking out of one session and straight into another conversation in the hallway.

One minute someone was asking how culture and reproductive health belong in the same conversation. The next, another person wanted to talk about supporting peer mentors to have honest conversations about s*x. Then you found yourself discussing AI, disability justice, or the Maputo Protocol over coffee with someone you'd only just met.

The conference wasn't only in the plenary rooms.

It was in the hallways. Around the booths. Over lunch. Between strangers who quickly became collaborators.

Maybe that's what we'll remember most.

Not one session.

Not one speaker.

But what it felt like to be in a space where everyone believed that a more just future is possible, and was willing to build it together.

Some conferences give you notes.

ARJC gave us memories.

And memories have a way of becoming movements.

Join us for TICAH Matawi Plant Talks, held every Tuesday a space where community knowledge, care for the land, and share...
05/06/2026

Join us for TICAH Matawi Plant Talks, held every Tuesday a space where community knowledge, care for the land, and shared voices come together. Through conversation and learning, we nurture plants, people, and the wisdom that connects us all.

🗓 Every Tuesday

🕘 9:30 AM (Nairobi)

💻 Google meet - https://meet.google.com/mdw-cbwm-qyq

Nashon Okumu will be representing TICAH to disseminate our research on cultural approaches to addressing SGBV through an...
02/06/2026

Nashon Okumu will be representing TICAH to disseminate our research on cultural approaches to addressing SGBV through an abstract presentation at the *9th RHNK Pan African Conference 2026.*

His abstract, "Reframing Culture as a Protective SRHR Innovation to Address SGBV among AGYW," draws insights from our research in Mt Elgon Bungoma County, exploring how culture isn't just a barrier to ending SGBV but also part of the solution.

He looks forward to connecting and networking with researchers and fellow delegates, and contributing to the growing knowledge on how SGBV Interventions are designed, centering community and indigenous wisdom, not just policy and legal frameworks alone.

26/05/2026

The most powerful evidence of impact is not a number on a page.

It is a woman, in her own words, telling you how her life has changed.

These are the voices of women across TICAH's work, in health, in arts, in community. Each with her own story. Each part of something much larger than herself.

We are proud to share this with you. Not as a report. Not as a case study. But as a reminder of why this work matters and who it belongs to.

Watch, and let their words speak for themselves.

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