Sekulu Nyekha
- Award:Best Outgoing StudentAwarding Organization:Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, BangaloreDate Awarded:March 27, 2019
- Award:ValedictorianAwarding Organization:Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, BangaloreDate Awarded:March 28, 2019
- Award:Plenary speaker and writer (youth delegate)Awarding Organization:ICFP, 2018

I was part of Hidden Pockets Collective for 2 years as a volunteer. I have touched varied areas of work during the course including mapping health clinic and reviewing the same, creating photo stories, curating and designing campaigns, as a social media person, designing other creatives, initiating and hosting events, etc. All of these circled around the importance and risks of sexual and reproductive health. I was selected to the ICFP 2018 and attended the conference as a plenary speaker and writer (youth delegate), representing Hidden Pockets Collective. I was also invited by UN foundation as a global youth representative to briefing of US journalists at the same.
Sex is a tabooed topic in our community. We never received sex education nor a mentor to guide us through puberty. This does not however mean young people are not having sex. Friends would get pregnant when they were as young as 15/16/18. Some would go through abortions where they were abused by doctors and nurses, one decided to keep the baby and stopped going to school.I have also seen poor families have children more than they can afford. Witnessing such incidents, I decided to be passionate
1. Through my volunteering work. I was a volunteer at Hidden Pockets Collective as an experience designer, addressing issues of family planning, and currently a volunteer at IYAFP.
2. I was selected to attend the ICFP 2018 as a plenary speaker and writer (youth delegate). I represented Hidden Pockets Collective.
I'm currently working on a project independently to work on the issue of differently abled and inclusivity/accommodation. Understanding the importance of family planning, the platform will address the issues of the same faced by the differently abled. I currently need the resources to collect data and document stories. We need more health advocates who are differently abled, contents and documentations that projects the realities of sexual health of the differently abled.


