by Collins Baswony | Apr 30, 2020 | Advance, Covid-19, Kenya
Kenya, along with the rest of the world is currently responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. How the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the different aspects of our lives is continuously being documented and discussed. The economic effects of COVID-19 and the response of the...
by Collins Baswony | Mar 4, 2020 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
A DSW trained and supported mentor for young adolescents from Kilifi county with pupils. PHOTO/DSW 12-year-old Josphine* escaped being a child bride by the skin of her teeth in 2019. When her father passed on earlier that year, her brothers decided to end her...
by Collins Baswony | Feb 14, 2020 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Sheila Chepkoech, 17, sat for her 2019 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education at Kapkeben Secondary School in Uasin Gishu, balancing between the exam schedule and motherhood. Sheila says she had no knowledge about how to avoid unintended pregnancy. “I never heard of...
by Evelyn Samba | Dec 12, 2019 | Empower, Enhance, Kenya, Youth, Youth Empowerment
DSW Kenya’s engagements with ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise This year marked the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). To commemorate this, the governments of Kenya and Denmark and the United Nations Population Fund...
by Collins Baswony | Aug 27, 2019 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
DSW supported youth from Nairobi, Kenya marked this year’s International Youth Day in a colorful event on 9th August, at Githurai Youth Empowerment Centre. The event was attended by over 1,500 people. Among those in attendance was Mrs. Emily Maina (a representative of...
by Collins Baswony | Jul 3, 2019 | Advance, Kenya, Youth Empowerment
2018 marked an important milestone for our work in Kenya. It was the first year of delivering our 2018 – 2022 strategic plan. In 2018, our budget advocacy work scored some important goals. In our bid to secure more and better domestic family planning funds, we...