“Keep Her Safe”
Education holds the key to a better life and better society; a life with less poverty and better health; yet widespread Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in and around schools seriously undermines the achievement of high-quality, inclusive, and equitable education for vulnerable girls.
Silent suffering: Kenyan girls missing out on education
Crises can exacerbate the hurdles girls face in education, including sexual and gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy, and child marriage. In Kenya, girls from Turkana host communities and urban refugee girls in Eastleigh informal settlement, Nairobi, are disadvantaged at all stages of education and struggle to learn given the high levels of vulnerabilities.
STEM training that is shaping my career
My name is John Muriithi~ A Marxist and a tech enthusiast In today’s competitive and consumer-driven market, technology is no longer a novelty or an option. It’s gradually becoming the norm. Every organization is looking to up or rather leveraging technology for...
FAWE Kenya changing lives
Home and Family. Having been born in a family of six, 4 elder brothers and one sister [late by now], my childhood and growing has been hectic all through. Varying from hunger, inadequate basic needs, sickness and most crucially school fees for my brothers and...
Data-driven advocacy for girls’ education in emergencies in Kenya.
FAWE Kenya is currently Building on Its experience in working with women’s rights organizations to use data more effectively in advocacy, this project aims at: Supporting women's rights organisations in two focus countries to effectively use data to advocate for their...
Mentoring Our Future Generation
In shot, Emily Manjeru and the TUSEME club members at Kenya High School Over the last decade, Kenya has made significant progress in education, achieving gender parity in primary education enrolment and near parity at secondary level. However, gender parity does not...
Reproductive Health for teens
Sexuality education can create more opportunities for dialogue between youth and adults and help refute the myths about sexuality that young people often hear from the media and from their peers. Supplementing the education provided by the family can also help adults...
National Campaign on Reproductive Health
As we are in the third Phase of the ASRHR Programme, the main objective is Advocating for National Action to Protect Adolescent Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Kenya. The main approach to achieving this goal is through popularization and...
Enhancing Girls Education
Education is one of the most critical areas of empowerment for girls and women. Offering girls basic education is one sure way of giving them much greater power -- of enabling them to make genuine choices over the kinds of lives they wish to lead. This is not a luxury...
FAWE Kenya Spreading Her Wings
It’s evidently a good time for women in the industry. We are increasingly seeing more women in senior positions, running large businesses; even in traditionally male-dominated roles and sectors, women are balancing the scale. We are lucky to be surrounded by some very...