Empowering girls through education and leadership

Through our season for girls initiative, now Linda Binti, we have been naturing and mentoring teen girls from vulnerable backgrounds over the years. Our main theme has been 'Empowering future leaders'. Our mentorship sessions always go hand in hand with the distribution of mentrual hygiene products. This include sanitary towels, panties and soap. Many of the girls we mentor find it hard to afford this basic things.

The mentorship events feature full days of girl talks and games where we teach the girls in a fun manner. It is also a safe space for the teen girls to share on the challenges they are currently facing and seek assistance. We ensure the girls prioritize education and their future, while guiding them through the challenges they face. Through this forums we have met girls who have dropped out of school either for lack of fees or pregnancy, and assisted them to resume school through the assistance of our partners.

Our most recent mentoship program was heald on the International Menstrual Hygiene Awareness day. Menstruation hygine is one of the key topics we discuss about when talking with the girls. This time we shared a meal with them and even cut a cake to comemorate the day. 

More teen girls are having faith in us and the forums we hold, allowing them to be bold enough to shae with us the problems we face. We still encounter teen mums who we take into our safe house shelter until they give birth, after which we assist them to resume school as they take care of their children.

We beleive in naturing the female leaders of tomorrow.

At the beginning of the year, we were lucky to partner Lioons Club Denmark to launch a vocational training program, that offers caregiving training to vulnerable women and girls in the community. Over the years, we have been empowering women and girls from vulnerable communitities in Kenya with hand skill training, but this particular program offers a unique innovative and diverse opportunity for job creation and self sustainability.

The program is curated to last a period of about 3 weeks with a maximum of 100 students at a time. The highest number of our recruits has been teen mums, which was rather alarming. They are however still determined to attain their dreams through education, as much as their hard life of been teen mums in porverty still tortures their hopes.

The program is also part of our exit strategies for the many vulnerable teen mums, girls and women housed in our safe house, to equip them with livelihood skills for when they rejoin the community. The women are attached to jobs once done with the program. We are also making plans to monitor a microfinance sacco for them to furthure grow themselves.

We are currently planning a teen mentorship program to take place in about 2 weeks time. The program is meant to; teach proper behavioral skills, discuss mental health, develop self awareness, self worth, self esteem, and discuss relatiomships and communication.