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Netball Festival 2025
The Netball Festival 2025 in Ndhiwa- Kenya was a vibrant celebration of teamwork, resilience, and community spirit. The event brought together girls to gain experiences and netball skills, build confidence, and learn leadership. With cheers from teachers, and supporters, the festival showed that the girls can do more when given the opportunity, it also served as a fun opportunity for the girls to engage in sporting activity. Between matches, players joined mentorship sessions on goal setting and self-belief. The day ended with trophies, smiles, and a renewed commitment to empowering girls through sport. Together, we’re creating a future where every…
Read moreCamera for Girls Workshop 2025
How do you draw the line between prying into someone’s intimate moment and capturing the reality of their inner world? We can debate the ethics of street photography, but it is now undoubtedly clear that informed consent and ethical storytelling are essential when documenting poverty, disasters, or any context involving vulnerability. In today’s media landscape, the way we tell stories—especially about marginalized communities—can either reinforce stereotypes or promote dignity, agency, and positive change. Cameras for Girls addresses these questions and offers guidance on how to share narratives while upholding integrity, respect, and authenticity. Girls from the Ndhiwa community, along with…
Read moreNoven’s Journey: From Student to Changemaker
Noven Owili joined Team Kenya’s program in 2007 while in Class 7, during a difficult time in her life. Living with her mother and siblings under a leaking iron sheet roof and cracked walls, education seemed out of reach — until Team Kenya stepped in. With their support, Noven completed high school and college, eventually self-sponsoring her Bachelor of Commerce degree at KCA University. She went on to build a successful career in finance and community development, working with Harambee DT Sacco and Nila Pharmaceuticals. Her proudest achievement? Building a permanent home for her mother, replacing the broken structure…
Read moreGreen Match Fund: Double the Impact for Climate Action & Food Security in Rural Kenya
This week provides a unique opportunity to double your donation and double your impact for vulnerable communities in rural Kenya. Together with Big Give, Team Kenya is supporting communities in the fight against climate change, with the Green Match Fund campaign. What is the Green Match Fund? Between 22-29 April, Big Give has selected hundreds of green charities to support by doubling every donation made – and Team Kenya is one of those lucky charities. Every donation made to Team Kenya’s Forest Garden Initiative throughout this week will be doubled! That means your donation goes twice as far, supporting grassroots…
Read morePowering Education in Rural Kenya: Strategic Partnership with Tespack
Team Kenya is proud to announce a new partnership with Tespack to bring smart energy solutions to rural Kenya. A New Partnership Lighting the Way for Education in Ndhiwa We are delighted to announce a significant new partnership with Tespack. This collaboration is a pivotal step towards enhancing educational access, empowering women, and fostering sustainable community development in the rural region of Ndhiwa, Kenya. Addressing the Challenge of Remote Education One of the most pressing challenges faced by communities in rural Kenya is the limited access to reliable electricity. Without a stable power supply, educational activities are often interrupted,…
Read moreNewcastle University Trip to Ndhiwa
We are delighted to share a blog written by one of the Newcastle University Team Kenya Society members, who has recently returned from a fantastic trip to Ndhiwa. Read Bibi’s blog below, to find out more about the students’ adventure… Arriving After our long journey from Newcastle Airport our group of 5 arrived at Jomo Kenyatta Airport at 7am. We met up with our driver Robert and began our journey to Ndihwa after leaving the airport. Despite being very tired from our already long journey to Nairobi, we all very much enjoyed our journey in the van, as it…
Read moreTeam Kenya 15th Anniversary Celebration
Don’t miss out! Grab your tickets now: www.teamkenya.org.uk/anniversary-ball-2023 This summer, we are celebrating 15 years of Team Kenya and would like to invite all of our supporters, friends, families and colleagues along to enjoy a fantastic evening of connecting and reflecting on everything that has been achieved since 2008. The past 15 years have seen us impact an estimated 80,000 people in Ndhiwa, including 25,000 young girls. Team Kenya’s work has had a remarkable impact on the Ndhiwa community, enabling a fantastic community-led transformation since Valerie Wilson (our founder) first visited in 1999. Our deep connections with the Ndhiwa community…
Read moreImpact Report 2022
Your support means we are able to deliver vital programmes in Ndhiwa. You can find out more about these programmes in our 2022 Impact Report. We hope you enjoy reading about how your donations have helped achieve some amazing things for the women and girls of Ndhiwa. Impact Report highlights 480 women received training in micro-finance by December, and 740 women are currently members of table-banking groups. By securing 35,000 Euros from the L’oreal Women’s fund for agribusiness training at the end of 2022, we will be able to continue to financially empower women so they can send their girls…
Read moreClimate Change and Gender Equality
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing our population right now. However, what is often overlooked is the disproportionate impact climate change has on certain groups in society, especially women and girls living in lower-income countries. This year, our Newcastle University Team Kenya Society has set out to find out more about the links between gender equality and climate change. The society’s research has found that women lack power in climate decisions on a global scale, due to their being underrepresented in environmental policy making. For example, in 2020, women held only 15% of top jobs as ministers…
Read moreInternational Women’s Day 2023 – DigitALL
This year, all of us at Team Kenya were very excited to learn the theme for International Women’s Day – ‘DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality’. Getting girls into digital has been one of Team Kenya’s key aims for our girls education projects in Ndhiwa. Our partner organisation Twende Pamoja have helped bridge the digital divide by providing girls and women with IT training in our purpose-built Learning Resource Centre (LRC). The UN recognises that not only does the digital divide negatively affect women and girls, but it also damages the entire world’s economy. As per the UN Women’s…
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