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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Promoting Girls STEAM Education
Female students represent 35% of all the students enrolled in STEM- related fields of study at this level globally. Only 3% of female students in higher education choose information and communication technologies (ICT) studies. This gender disparity is...
read moreMicar’s Success Story
My Name is Mwazighe Micar a beneficiary of Fawe Kenya/AGSP Program. I was born in a humble background in TaitaTaveta County. I was brought up smelling and seeing challenges right, left and center. Despite that, I was able to maneuver and achieve my dreams. This is...
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REVIVING SHATTERED DREAMS (RE- ENTRY POLICY TO TEENAGE MOTHERS)
Written by Grace Ananda- FAWE Kenya. Introduction Access to quality education for girls in Kenya has been a concern. The problem is even more pronounced among girls from marginalized areas. While schools in these areas are poorly equipped and under staffed to...
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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO ON THE GLOBAL ACTION WEEK FOR EDUCATION
Global Action Week for Education is a platform that offers the opportunity to carry out specific activities to bring about change and bring the whole world together for the same cause. This year, Global Action Week will take place from April 24th to May...
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO DURING THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
This year 2019 #International Women Day theme “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change” Forum for Africa Women Educationalist Kenya (FAWEK) focuses and reflects on the progress made in realizing gender equality, celebrate will power demonstrated by...
Enough with the Silence!
The Africa youth summit was held on the 23rd-24th of November 2018 in Accra, Ghana. The meeting was a success given that the main agenda of eradicating child marriage in Africa and the promotion of an in depth coursework of sexuality education in all institutions was...
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LUCY THE ENGINEER
Lucy Ng’endo Njoroge is an engineer who prides in providing renewable energy services and water purification systems for a clean and green environment. She grew up in a village in western Kenya. She comes from a family of 9 (4 brothers and 2 Sisters) and she is...
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Commonwealth Scholarships 2018
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Kenya Chapter is a membership Organization and an affiliate of FAWE Pan African Regional Organization. FAWE Kenya Chapter is therefore a member of the FAWE Network in Sub-Saharan Africa, working together with other 33...
THE REASON WHY I CHOSE STEM
My name is Claire Wambui Njuguna, a second-year student in Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri. I am currently pursuing Bachelor of Science in Mechatronic Engineering. My love for STEM started way back as a child though I was not so sure which field I would...
GETTING PAST THE BREAKEVEN POINT
Almost everyone today has a side hustle that supplements their income. Every entrepreneur strives to use their enterprise either as a way of survival or as a means to attaining sustainable wealth levels in the long term. Pushing a new business past its break-even...