By Nikole Lim | International Director
Freely in Hope believes that girls deserve equal access to education. Providing girls ample opportunities to pursue their academic goals also has the potential to prevent sexual violence. However, COVID-19 has caused a rise in cases of sexual and domestic violence as socioeconomic disparities are widening, schools are still closed, curfews and travel restrictions are policed, and girls are forced to work and shelter in unsafe places—some are sheltering in place with their perpetrators. Our scholars and their families have been disproportionately affected by this global pandemic which is requiring us to modify our methods.
We are committed to achieving our mission of ending sexual violence during the pandemic.
With all school’s closed, the pandemic has required us to fund additional support outside of our usual programming. Implementing solutions from our communities in Kenya, Freely in Hope has transitioned to an in-house learning community that provides consistent support, professional mentoring, counseling, safe housing, and individualized tutoring.
Your support is helping us fund these additional support systems as schools are still closed across Kenya. Thank you!
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