By Dr Grace B. Mose -Okong'o | project Leader
Dear Friend,
The first part of the year saw us engaging with advocacy with youth and children issues at Gisebei primary school to combat child, youth abuse, FGM and prevent early pregnancies all reported in previous report.
In May, HFAW CEO, I, was privileged to participate in the Global Women Leadership Network which offers transformative training entitled “The Ripple Effect of Women leaders: From Local Impact to Global Change.” It was a training that not only inspires direction but helped me see blind spots including the hidden invisible rules and assumptions that limit us from helping our staff and stakeholders from achieving our potential. It unfolded mindset and self doubts that slow us down and inhibit us and those who work with us. The training helped unveil how to disengage from these things while opening new possibilities, new thinking about our vision. It showed me how to create a new roadmap. The good thing also is that our coaches are with us for another six months before they send us to the world of work. I came home convinced that HFAW must take a first step of developing its live changing strategic plan. All the way from San Jose to Kenya I kept wondering how HFAW survived three years without a clear and professional strategic plan. To many of you our supporters, Thank you so much for your support. Please know that we carry enormous gratitude in our hearts to you our cheerleaders. We could not have done anything without your support. Through you we raised flight tickets and some remaining fees. Some of you continuously gave us moral support and mentoring especially when things are so tough. Importantly, you are helping my entire HFAW team, health and human rights promoters and myself turn breakdown into breakthroughs!
And now HFAW team is working with a consultant to create a five year strategic plan. This will clarify our focus and help us better engage our local beneficiaries and stakeholders at the local and international levels. We expect even better outcomes and bigger impact in the near future. As we work on this plan our women continue to forge forward with their economic empowerment project. We continue to endorse interest free loan from kiva.org and the women (and men) continue to work on their economic activities. And our advocacy work is underway. We want to train as many people as we can on how to be an intervention in their own communities.
We believe that our model program of employing popular education to combat GBV and other gender issues in the community combined with economic entrepreneurship and leadership from the community itself is very practical. We still want to train more women than the first 30 health and human rights promoters. We therefore appeal to you for your continued support Please reach out to your friends, colleagues and all kinds of well-wishers to help us reach our funding goal of $25,000 and build a movement that will end gender discrimination in Kisii. You helped us earn a spot on global giving, so tax deductive donations will reach us through global giving site. We will keep you well updated on all our progress and achievements. Please visit our website and facebook to see photos of our work portraying the trainings and an additional photo from the GWLN training. Please also review our work with youth and children report. Thank you!
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