by Collins Baswony | May 29, 2018 | Foster, Kenya
By Evelyn Samba All Kenyan school girls to get free sanitary towels! The headlines rang in June 2017 after President Uhuru Kenyatta assented to the Basic Education (Amendment) Act of 2017. The law stated that the government has to provide “free, sufficient and...
by Collins Baswony | Feb 6, 2018 | Foster, Kenya
By Evelyn Samba Today, the United Nations will lead the world in commemorating the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, marked annually on the 6th of February. This commemoration comes hot on the heels of fresh debate about female genital...
by Collins Baswony | Feb 6, 2018 | Advance, Kenya
Kenya is making progress towards ensuring access to family planning services, an analysis by Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) has shown. The budget analysis conducted by Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) examined the national budget and the budgets of 11...
by Collins Baswony | Nov 22, 2017 | Foster, Kenya
DSW held a beauty pageant in the coastal town of Mombasa in Kenya to give young people an opportunity to have fun and access sexual and reproductive health services. The beauty pageant, dubbed Mr and Miss Y2Y 2017 mega event, was held in Mary Cliff Primary School in...
by Collins Baswony | Oct 3, 2017 | Empower, Kenya
Peter Ngure, DSW’s advocacy lead in Kenya, is a 120 under 40 2017 winner for his contribution to the advancement of family planning in Kenya. Over the last three years, Peter has led the DSW advocacy team in Kenya to support county governments in ensure that they...