Breaking the cycle of gender violence

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Summary

The project equips local leaders with adequate information to enable them collaborate with marginalized peasant women in opening up discussion on gender violence and offering abused women safe haven. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Kenya, over 48% of women have experienced some form of violence in their lifetime, 25% of 12-24 year olds lost their virginity by force while over 60% of victims did not report to anyone. The project will strengthen gender violence victims' resolve to break the silence, offer medicolegal care and trauma counseling. It will tap talents, resources and skills of community gatekeepers and increase their collective power in dismantling cultural attitudes that subject women to violence.

Activities

We will offer medicolegal and counseling care to victims, rebuild their self-esteem and build their individual capacity to intervene in identifying workable solutions. Creating space for discussion will ensure men are involved in abolishing the norm

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $4,275
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $40,725
Total Funding Goal: $45,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will incorporate the support of community gatekeepers in addressing the denial surrounding violence by creating access points within the community that enhance members' ability to find help and connect to social networks.

Project Message

"Dad said it was OK to beat a girl. My peers sided with him. I changed my mind when my baby sister was gang raped and left for dead. She is now HIV+. I believe this project will change how men think."
- Sebastian Okere, Beneficiary of a "Man2Man Empowerment" training

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Stella Amojong,
Program Coordinator
OLOO STREET, 64 ARCADE, 1st Floor
P.O BOX 630
ELDORET, RIFT VALLEY PROV, 30100
Kenya
+254-734-970939
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)
Market Street
Siro House, 2nd Flr, Room 207
ELDORET, RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE P.O Box 1439-30100
Kenya
+254-720-8446605

Learn more about Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI) and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 22, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Its still NOT right to beat a woman!

By Emily Cheptoo - Project Officer, August 22, 2008 01:33 PM

Hi,

Hope you are all doing great!!

Mid this year we carried a campaign to sensitize the community about domestic violence.

During the one-month campaign, we learnt that men still consider battering their wives as a normal practice, never mind laws outlawing domestic violence.

Some of the men said a husband who does not beat his wife cannot be considered for a leadership position in the community!

And the women still believe that men have a right to clobber them. Some women even reported that they had asked their spouses to beat them!!

Between august and December we will be sharing with you profiles of women who have overcome violence as well as stories of women who are still shackled by this archaic practice.

Enjoy reading and keep your feedback (and support!!) flowing in.




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