by Collins Baswony | May 28, 2020 | Female Empowerment, Kenya, Youth Empowerment
World menstrual hygiene day, marked annually on 28th May, gives us an opportunity to take stock of efforts taken to secure the right of girls and women to manage their menstruation adequately and with dignity. Girls and women in Kenya were struggling with menstrual...
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...