Thank you Rhoda for sitting with my reflection so deeply. I appreciate how you picked the ECR lens and the fathers in formation framing — that means a lot.You are right, the lesson outlives school. That is what we see…

@Rhoda Nakhosi Thank you for spotlighting this crucial reality the fear of community surveillance, clinic-associated stigma, and parental disclosure in many African contexts is indeed a massive barrier that keeps young people from walking through clinic doors. To your question, digital…

@Rhoda Nakhosi you’ve pinpointed where standard interventions fracture. Monthly absence tracking flags girls still fighting to attend, but misses the chronic drift toward dropout where missed days lead to poor exam performance, disengagement, and quiet attrition. Catching this requires linking attendance…

@Rhoda Nakhosi The deferral of social stakes is a genuine risk that tips from a helpful trade-off into harm whenever AI becomes a terminal destination rather than a rehearsal. Externalizing pain to an algorithm can lower the barrier to eventually confiding…

@Rhoda Nakhosi Spot-on challenges. Both tokenism and staff burnout are real risks if this isn\'t structured intentionally.On genuine youth involvement: It fails when it’s treated as a one-off focus group or a wish list that gets ignored. It works when youth…

@Charles Bawate Anyama, this is the fullest answer anyone has given to my original question. But I want to test the parenting argument, because I think it lets our institutions off slightly too easily.You say we raised children to fear vulnerability,…

@Charles Bawate \"Dignity by design\" is a phrase I\'ll be borrowing and I like that you\'ve drawn the boundary at nutrition first rather than nutrition only. The club-linkage idea is smart because it answers my worry about workload without dropping…

Fortunate This is the question that defines our generation of African researchers. Why does Africa publish evidence about its own young people, yet policy for those young people is still imported?At Purpose Rwanda, we have learned this: The gap between…

Rhoda Nakhosi Powerful framing. At Purpose Rwanda in Kigali, we see school meals doing silent mental health work.When adolescents — especially girls — feel safe, dignified, and included at the table, attendance becomes belonging.I vote: Double duty, but with boundaries.1. Stay…

Thank you Rhoda for sitting with this uncomfortable truth. I have been sitting with it too since your workshop note, and I want to offer a different lens.Young people are not choosing ChatGPT over peers. They are choosing a non-relationship…

@Charles Bawate, thank you for registering, and I\'m glad the citizen science and gender transformative framing resonated. You\'ve picked out exactly the thread I hope the session pulls on: the gap between disaggregated baseline data and the lived experiences behind…

@Charles Bawate, your point on \"identification happens through relationship, not registration\" answers my question better than I could have hoped. It also explains why stigma doesn\'t follow the PAT route in the same way: the entry point is friendship, not a…

@Charles Bawate,Your ECR lens is the part I hadn\'t considered properly: the lesson a girl learns isn\'t about the product but about whether her body deserves safety and privacy, and that lesson outlives school. Two things; First, your point about…

Rhoda, thank you for your thoughtful reply to my earlier contribution. You asked exactly the right follow-up: how does Purpose Rwanda\'s PAT model actually identify and support informal peer networks without stigma following them there too?I want to build on…

Thank you Rhoda for opening this space, and thank you Nonvicks and Shamim for the honest reflections.I am learning and also mentoring youth every day in Rwanda through Purpose Rwanda. What you describe — a girl with a pad in…