Build a skills hub for 250 girls in Kenya

Home visits help establish a strong communication and relationship between the parents, girls, mentors and Msichana Empowerment Kuria team. We believe that it is important to carry out home visits for girls coming from hard to reach areas and who are in our programs to better understand their individual family struggles, and what they find are the most difficult challenges they face in their lives.

When our mentors/champions see these harsh realities for themselves, they become better-equipped to provide each girl in our program with the exact support they so desperately need. Additionally, when our mentors/champions visit the homes of the vulnerable and marginalized girls, we, in turn, get a better idea of what a tremendous impact our programs are having in the lives of the girls we support.

In the past quarter we carried out home visits for girls who are in the program from vulnerable homes, hard to reach areas, marginalized villages, child headed families in Kuria East and West sub-counties, during this process we were able to reach approximately 150 homes.

During the home visits we were able to support and deliver basic essentials such as food stuffs including (sugar, cooking oil, maize flour,rice), menstrual hygiene packages (pads, soap, panties, toiletries).

A testimony from one of the area chiefs “lack of food sometimes forces some of the parents to cut their daughters and marry them off to reduce the burden of providing food and other basic essentials to the girl, it’s important to offer life skills training to the girls and their parents for them to understand the harmful effects of Female Genital Mutilation”.

This process also gave us a platform to have discussions with the girls and their parents on the harmful effects of Female Genital Mutilation and for them to make positive decisions of ending the harmful cultural practices in this case FGM and child marriage.

The process also enabled us to understand that it is essential to visit the girls home frequently and this further reduces their risk of undergoing the cut

During our home visits we were able to identify some of the challenges at risk girls face including lack of basic needs ie food,menstrual health essentials and lack of access to basic essentials among others.

Through your support we believe that we will continue supporting girls and their families reducing their risk of undergoing the cut.We thank GlobalGiving for their continous support.