by dswen | Oct 13, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
Last week, Halima Ali, The Young Adolescents Project (YAP) Coordinator in Kenya, visited Berlin to take part in a special meeting of DSW’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development in the context of International Day of the Girl Child. While she was...
by Renate Baehr | Aug 12, 2014 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
It’s not easy to be a young person living in Kenya today. Compared with adults, adolescents are at higher risk of illness and even death from pregnancy related complications, HIV infection, or other sexually transmitted infections. In addition, unintended pregnancy is...
by Howard Akimala | Jul 17, 2014 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
DSW recently distributed over 3, 400 sanitary towels to young adolescent girls in Kilifi county, coast region in Kenya. This is an effort to ensure more girls stay in school even when they are undergoing changes in their bodies that many times results in them dropping...
by dswen | Mar 9, 2014 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Yesterday we celebrated International Women’s Day. Supporting and empowering women and girls are fundamental to the work of DSW, something which new strive to achieve every day. To celebrate this, and the continuing contribution that women have made to DSW’s work, we...
by dswen | Mar 8, 2014 | Kenya, Youth Empowerment
Today is International Women’s Day. Supporting and empowering women and girls are fundamental to the work of DSW, something which new strive to achieve every day. To celebrate this, and the continuing contribution that women have made to DSW’s work, we have given over...