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18 Month Report: Brighter Futures
Here is our full Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Report on the Brighter Futures programme and the impact of the programme in its first 18 months. Thanks go to our volunteer, Alyssa Koenig, who wrote the majority of this report using information collected by our implementation partners, NCEDP. Background Brighter Futures is a current community outreach project run by the Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCEDP) and fully funded by partners Team Kenya UK, which aims to use football as a tool for engaging girls and boys in gender equality conversations to help reduce Gender Based Violence (GBV) and…
Read more18 Month Update: Brighter Futures
Our Brighter Futures programme uses mixed gender football as a vehicle to educate the community on issues, including gender-based violence and gender inequality. The programme initially provides interactive lessons to boys and girls at partner schools, before community outreach sessions are held to ensure that all groups within the community receive this vital education. Brighter Futures has now been operating for 18 months and evidence demonstrates that the programme is having a positive impact in reducing gender-based violence, child marriage and teenage pregnancies. In Ndhiwa, where Team Kenya works, only 15.7% of girls continue into secondary education – with gender-based…
Read moreTeam Kenya Accounts Archive
As Team Kenya became a Charity Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in September 2016, our accounts before this date are no longer available through the Charity Commission website. As an organisation we advocate transparency and with this in mind, we have made all of our accounts available by following the links below. 2017 Accounts – Please note that although Team Kenya was registered as a CIO in September 2016, funds were not transferred from the previous registered charity until January 2017. These accounts are dated from September 2016, though the financial information should be considered from January 2017 until December 2017. 2016 Accounts and…
Read moreAspire Scholarships
Team Kenya’s Aspire Scholarships programmes ensures that girls from particularly vulnerable backgrounds can access the education they need to lift themselves out of poverty. Plus, given that educated women tend to invest 90% of what they earn into their families, the benefits aren’t only experienced by the girls themselves. In the past, the programme has provided school fees and general support to girls through sponsorship. However, we are now empowering the mothers of poor girls through the development of women’s groups and entrepreneurial skills, such as sustainable agriculture training, beadwork training and small loans to enable women to establish small…
Read moreImpact report 2017
Your support means we are able to deliver vital projects in Ndhiwa. You can find out more about the impact of these projects in our recently published 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 Improved teaching practices for 3,500 students 2,000 pupils with access to clean drinking water, toilets and hand-washing facilities 1,800 family members with improved food security 425 women trained in sustainable agriculture 6,000 people trained in child rights and school-related gender-based violence prevention 84% of 2017 income spent on project costs…
Read moreBrighter Futures project update
In 2015 we completed a comprehensive research project into the root causes of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) in Ndhiwa and the most successful interventions. Our research found that: SRGBV in Ndhiwa is highly prevalent but underreported by schools and local government 62% of girls have experienced violent or sexual threats in schools 67% of girls felt that they may receive lower grades if they did not reciprocate sexual advances from male teachers 1 in 4 respondents felt that it was sometimes ok to raise a hand to a girl Our research showed that the key perpetrators are male teachers,…
Read moreWhy we’re replacing our scholarships with agricultural projects
Over 50% of girls in Ndhiwa drop out of primary school before completion and even fewer progress on to secondary school; families struggle to pay school fees and boys’ education is often prioritised over girls. Team Kenya works in partnership with primary schools in Ndhiwa to create girl-friendly environments and develop teaching practices that help to improve access to quality education for all girls. At the moment, Team Kenya provides girls with scholarships, through our Aspire Scholarships programme to allow them to progress on to secondary school and further education, which is beyond the financial reach of their families. Time for a…
Read moreEmpowering women in Ndhiwa
Ndhiwa is a rural region in Kenya where the majority of the population is almost entirely dependent on subsistence farming. Over 63% live in extreme poverty and 50% of girls drop out of school before completion. Team Kenya has developed an agricultural demonstration site to deliver training to women that increases access to food, grows family incomes and improves access to primary and secondary school education for girls. Thanks to this programme, there are now more girls than boys completing primary school in our partner schools and every daughter of a trainee was able to go on to secondary school…
Read moreRaising Achievement in Ndhiwa Primary Schools
In Spring 2017, Team Kenya was delighted to receive a grant of £10,000 from the British and Foreign School Society (https://www.bfss.org.uk) to introduce new activities into our existing programmes in schools. The project, ‘Raising Achievement in Ndhiwa Primary Schools’, is funded for twelve months and aims to improve education for girls and boys in our four partner schools and more widely across the sub-county. The project is improving access to much-needed resources for teachers and children as well as training and mentoring for a Lead Teacher in each school. The Lead Teacher will then be supported to cascade her/his learning…
Read moreTeam Kenya Aspire Scholarships Newsletter
Celebrating Success! Last year we trained over 120 of our girls’ mothers in improved agricultural techniques and table banking, to help them become food secure, increase their income and better manage their finances. As a result, for the first time, these women have sufficient funds to be able to contribute to their daughters’ school fees and better support their families. Thanks to the incredible efforts of the women that we trained, all of the girls in our Success for Girls in School and Aspire Scholarships programmes, who passed their primary schools exams, are now in high school with only a…
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