Permaculture Equips Families to Provide for Their Children and Fight Food Insecurity
Now families are equipped with permaculture education to start small-scale businesses that boost household income and improve their children's futures. From their new crops, families are improving nutrition, generating income from selling extra produce, and cutting expenses on produce. This not only alleviates food insecurity, but also empowers families to send their children to school. When families can afford to pay school fees, children will access a higher education level that can empower them out of poverty.
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Women’s Equality Day: Empowering Vulnerable Young Women in Kenya
Kenya, like many other countries, has struggled with gender inequality, particularly in rural areas and marginalized communities. Despite legal advancements in promoting gender equality, traditional norms and practices still hinder the progress of women and girls. Discrimination, violence against women, early marriage, teen pregnancy, and limited access to education and healthcare are some of the challenges faced by vulnerable young women in the country.
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Three facts everyone should know about global education for girls
An estimated 129 million girls worldwide are out of school today. While many children are unable to attend (or remain) in school, girls face more barriers such as gender bias, poverty, violence, and child marriage. In rural Kenya一 where Neema is based一most girls drop out of school by 8th grade.
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500+ individuals benefit from access to clean water at new campus
Many women and children in rural Kenya walk miles everyday to access water. But our borehole is now usable and word has spread that clean water is accessible! Everyday, women and children from the surrounding area come to fetch water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, bathing and/or watering crops.
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Joyce, a Tailoring Instructor, on the importance of training young women
Coming into contact with these beautiful young women has built strong relationships. It has made me have a passion and a concern for the young women whenever I come across them. It has taught me about passion and patience in life and understanding people in all dimensions — having sympathy and empathy towards them.
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An education changes everything for girls in Kenya
Without a thorough education, how can young women in rural Kenya have good job opportunities? Or a stable source of income? Or a way to provide for their children? Because of a lack of school fees and/or teenage pregnancy, a lot of young women in Kenya drop out of school.
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WATCH alumni Ann, Faith, and Lydia share their transformation stories!
See our brand NEW short film featuring graduates, Ann, Faith, and Lydia by a local videographer in Kenya.
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Life for Vulnerable Young Women in Rural Kenya
I was told that a man and his family can take a child from its mother. Just like that, a baby is snatched away and brought to the parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles of his or her biological father.
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Effectively Addressing the Victimization of Women in Rural Kenya
The way to address poverty, unwanted pregnancies, being orphaned, unpaid labor, alcoholism, and other everyday problems and abuses in rural Kenya is more than just helping survivors. It’s addressing emotional health.
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