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 Nduta Waweru | Sep 14, 2022 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
As DSW Kenya, we are proud to be the to-go-to organisation when it comes to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) programming for young people and adolescents in Kenya. For over 22 years now, we have been making sure young people are empowered to lead...
by Nduta Waweru | Aug 17, 2022 | Empower, Kenya, Youth
It is not uncommon to hear that young people have been told they are either too young or too immature to handle some things. Phrases such as ‘youth of today’ and ‘this generation’ are often loaded to highlight an older generation’s vexation with the youth. Usually,...
by Nduta Waweru | Jul 12, 2022 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
by Malemba Mkongo and Sandra Wekesa At the age of 15, Joyce Njeri* got pregnant after two months of meeting a 23-year-old man who promised to take her in as his wife. “I was in Class Seven when I met him. He asked me to be his girlfriend and after a few weeks of...
by Nduta Waweru | Jul 5, 2022 | Empower, Kenya
By Malemba Mkongo When Fransica Wanjiku got married in 2019, her main prayer was to one day give birth to a healthy baby. Being a woman living with a disability, she could not go ahead with her plans of conceiving without consulting a doctor to weigh in on whether...
by Nduta Waweru | Jun 17, 2022 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Childhood ought to come with innocence, freedom and playfulness. But this is not always the case. In many places across the world, children bear numerous burdens including violence and harmful practices that violate their fundamental rights and limit the enjoyment of...