by Nduta Waweru | Mar 10, 2023 | Female Empowerment, Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Technology is now a central part of our lives with access to vital services like health, e-commerce and income-generating opportunities online. This became clearer when the Covid-19 pandemic forced more people online to mitigate its effects and connect during...
by Nduta Waweru | Feb 7, 2023 | Female Empowerment, Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Caption: Nyatigi Fredrick, the Children Officer Kapenguria, West Pokot county speaks about the role of men in ending Female Genital Mutilation at Kalya FM during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. On February 6, the...
by Brussels Communications | Oct 24, 2022 | Brussels, Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
“If you educate a girl, you educate a whole nation.” European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica, Oct. 10, 2022 Between October 10 and 14, three DSW youth champions joined the 10th edition of the European Week of Action for Girls (EWAG) in Brussels,...
by Nduta Waweru | Oct 3, 2022 | Female Empowerment, Kenya
Kenya has made steady progress towards increased family planning uptake. The number of women using modern contraception has increased from 4.04 million in 2012 to 6.14 million in 2021, according to FP 2030. Statistics from the WHO’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and...
by Brussels Communications | Sep 26, 2022 | Brussels, Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
Every year, a coalition of European NGOs come together as part of the European Week of Action for Girls (EWAG) to amplify girls’ voices and call for girls’ rights to be at the core of the EU’s external action. This year, EWAG 2022, which is organised around the...
by Shane O'Halloran | Jun 17, 2022 | Advance, Empower, Enhance, Entrepreneurship, Female Empowerment, Foster, Uganda, Youth, Youth Empowerment
The ‘Providing Opportunities for Women in Entrepreneurship and Reproductive Health’ project, or quite simply POWER for short, is a brand new joint-initiative developed by DSW and our long-term partner in Uganda, Action for Health Uganda (A4HU). Starting this month and...