by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Feb 1, 2021 | Covid-19, Youth Empowerment
Purity Kanana, 23, is a youth leader in Youth and Women Advocacy Network (YWAN), a youth organisation located in Meru County, Kenya. She is the latest Meru-based youth champion to speak to us about how COVID-19 has affected her community. How do you see family...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Dec 18, 2020 | Youth Empowerment
Happy (almost) New Year from all of us at DSW! It is an understatement to say that 2020 brought with it many unexpected challenges and new situations to navigate. The COVID-19 pandemic heightened existing obstacles for women and girls across the four East African...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Dec 8, 2020 | Youth Empowerment
Santa Kagendo Sebastian, 31, is the founder of the Youth and Women Advocacy Newtwork (YWAN), an organisation based in Meru County, Kenya. The brainchild of Meru youths, YWAN’s goal is to build a platform for advocacy and provide skills for young people. How did you...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Dec 4, 2020 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Ahmed Yusuf, 27, is a family planning champion from Meru County and the assistant director of the Youth and Women Advocacy Network (YWAN). How did the idea for the Youth and Women Advocacy Network come about? I was inspired to start the Youth and Women Advocacy...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Dec 1, 2020 | Youth Empowerment
Between 2010 and 2018, new HIV infections among young women aged 15 to 24 worldwide fell by 25 percent. This very encouraging statistic continued in 2019. Comparing the data from 2019 with 2010 shows that HIV diagnoses among adults decreased by an estimated 23 percent...
