'Pendo’s Power' enhances children with knowledge to end sexual violence, create awareness

PENDO’S POWER EMPOWERS CHILDREN TO STOP ABUSE

Through this resource, parents and caregivers will feel equipped to initiate and facilitate conversations with their children surrounding consent, body autonomy, and sexual abuse prevention.

The book dubbed Pendo’s Power features a girl named Pendo, and her two friends Tumaini and Bahati. Pendo’s parents are conversant with the vulnerability of child sexual abuse and have educated Pendo about what abuse looks like. They have taught Pendo how she can prevent abuse by speaking up anytime she feels unsafe.

Pendo uses this knowledge to help her two friends who have encountered different forms of sexual abuse. She helps them gain the confidence to speak up about moments when they felt unsafe, and as a result, a perpetrator of child sexual abuse is taken away from the neighborhood.