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Team Kenya In Conversation with Anatalia
Team Kenya welcomes you to join us on an online platform created to ensure that the voices of marginalised women and girls are included in the global movement for gender equality. For our first online event, we are pleased to welcome to our virtual stage to Anatalia, one of 20,000 girls whose lives have been transformed by the Team Kenya and Twende Pamoja partnership since 2008. We are delighted to be able to offer a virtual platform and an international audience for Anatalia to share her inspiring story and raise awareness of the devastating injustices facing vulnerable girls in Ndhiwa, Kenya. About…
Read moreMeet Saida!
Saida is a 10 year old girl from Ndhiwa Hospital School pictured here with her grandmother receiving emergency support. Saida is an orphan; she is HIV positive and asthmatic. Her grandmother is very caring, but is also in poor health and has no work and no income and has therefore been desperately struggling to feed the family. Team Kenya and Twende Pamoja have been able to supply Saida with the medication she needs and her grandmother has had agricultural support (vegetable seedlings) as well as a range of basic needs to help her put food on the table. Saida has…
Read moreTwende Pamoja are recruiting in Ndhiwa, Homa Bay County!
Our partner organisation, Twende Pamoja, are recruiting a local Managing Director in Ndhiwa, Home Bay County, Kenya to lead the organisation during an exciting period of growth and transformation. Do you want to work with a grassroots, dynamic NGO dedicated to educating girls, empowering women, and transforming communities in Ndhiwa, Western Kenya? This leadership position will provide intensive support to the development of Twende Pamoja and their team during their next period of growth. The Managing Director will be responsible for the continued delivery of their vision, mission, and strategic goals, ensuring all programs of activities remain in line with…
Read moreInternational Day of the Girl: My Voice, Our Equal Future
The fight for women and girls’ rights has progressed rapidly in the past 25 years, spearheaded by the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: a motion which focused on 12 critical aspects to further the acknowledgment and advancement of such rights. Since then, gender equality has seen a worldwide improvement, with the implementation of new laws protecting women, greater representation of women in the workplace and developments in education, to name but a few. The International Day of the Girl, held annually on 11th October, aims to empower and fulfil girls’ human rights on a global scale, alongside illustrating…
Read moreStronger Together – Our response to Covid-19
Firstly, on behalf of everyone at Team Kenya and the Staff and Board in Ndhiwa, Kenya, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe and staying healthy. Our thoughts are with those who are especially vulnerable and whose livelihoods have been impacted. There’s no denying that this is an extremely worrying and challenging time for everyone worldwide. This is especially true for the girls and women we already work with in Ndhiwa, as well as our Kenyan staff and volunteers. ‘No one is safe until everyone is safe’: UN aid Chief on Coronavirus People in Ndhiwa are scared….
Read moreMeet Georgina!
Georgina Gor Awino is 19 years old and has recently started studying Education with Science at Moi University in Eldoret. Georgina hopes that studying her diploma will help her to become a biology and chemistry teacher in the future. Georgina was born in Yiembe village and is the second last born of six children in her family. Georgina attended Koduogo Primary School, which is one of Team Kenya’s partner schools in Ndhiwa. At the school, she was selected to join the Girls’ Support Group, which she was a part of from 2011 to 2014. The Girls’ Support Group was…
Read moreWin Lucy Bronze’s Signed Boots!
As you may have seen Team Kenya ambassador, Lucy Bronze recently won the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year! This is another incredible accolade to add to her extensive trophy collection! To celebrate, Lucy has generously donated a pair of signed boots to Team Kenya. From noon on Wednesday 9th October to noon on Friday 11th October 2019, you will have the opportunity to win those boots! To enter the competition, all you need to do is text the word BOOTS to 70085. Entries cost standard message rate, plus an optional £5 donation. This competition is only open…
Read moreRunning the Great North Run for Team Kenya!
We were delighted to have a group of runners take on the Great North Run for Team Kenya! As North East-based charity, we know how important the Great North Run is for the region and we’re always so proud to have people take part in this beloved event to raise funds for Team Kenya. One of our fantastic runners, Clare Talbot-Jones, has written a fantastic blog explaining why she chose to take part in the Great North Run, why she wanted to support Team Kenya and the impact that the event had on her. Last year my whole mindset was…
Read moreErick Appointed New Agribusiness Manager
Erick Otieno been appointed as the new Agribusiness Manager at Karibuni Eco-Cottages. Erick has been a dedicated volunteer for Team Kenya’s implementation partners, Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCEDP) for many years. Erick was supported with contributions towards his studies through school and college and is now determined to use the knowledge and skills he has acquired to contribute towards the development of his community. As part of his diploma at Bukura Agricultural College, Erick completed an agricultural placement with Mixa, a food & beverage producer in Kisumu. Erick’s placement involved working on a farm heavily involved in agribusiness…
Read moreMeet Josephine!
Josephine is 13 years old and attends Koduogo Primary School, where she is part of the Girls’ Support Group. She lives with her mother, father, four brothers and one sister. Josephine is performing well in school, with an average mark of around 300. In the future, she would like to be a teacher. She plans to continue into further education to achieve her dreams. Her favourite subject is science. Josephine joined the Girls’ Support Group in Class 5; “When I heard the girls that had been empowered, I wanted to be like them!” “I have learned many things, including safe…
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