Our Impact
We envision a world where girls live free from violence
THE ISSUE
Violence against girls is a widespread and catastrophic global crisis.
Globally one girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds. As of 2024 230 million girls and women have undergone Female Genital Mutilation and 120 million girls worldwide have experienced forced sexual violence at some point in their lives. More than 80% of girls( 9-18 years) living in the rural and border communities we work with in Kenya have experienced a form of violence with devastating long-term effects.
UNICEF estimates that the global pace of decline would need to be 27 times faster to end FGM by 2030 and that we need to go 20 times faster to end child marriage by 2030.
THE SOLUTION
The time to act to prevent violence against girls is now. We know violence against girls is preventable, since 2011 we have worked with girls and their communities to prevent and respond to various forms of violence against girls living in rural and cross-border communities in Kenya through girl-led and girl-centered approaches.
We are girl-led and girl-centered driven by the fact that conventional prevention and response strategies often exclude girls, even though adolescent girls experience devastating rates of violence. Our multi-faceted and intersectional work responds to individual girls and collective needs.
GIRLS SAFE SPACES
Co-created with adolescent girls, our Girls Safe Spaces Girls builds girls' leadership, agency and voice through skills training, access to sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services and girl-led advocacy
GIRLS EDUCATION
We provide full secondary scholarships and school essentials like uniforms, shoes, books and personal effects to the most vulnerable girls ages 9-18. Over the past twelve years, we’ve directly supported more than 2,000 girls to access both primary and secondary school education. We invest in girls' transition and completion of secondary education, which has been evidenced to serve as a stronger and more consistent protection against child marriage.
MENSTRUAL HEALTH CARE
Our 50,000 packs 7-day-a-week menstrual care bank supports thousands of adolescent girls and young women in our community and neighbouring counties like Homabay and Kisumu with high-quality, biodegradable, menstrual health care products and information enabling 1,200 adolescent girls quarterly to regularly attend school reducing their vulnerability to teen pregnancies, sexual exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage
LEGAL AND HEALTH CARE
Through case management, we work with community health workers, local administration and children's services to provide girl-responsive support to girl survivors of violence.
GIRLS AND WOMEN'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
We integrate financial resilience training and business grants through women's income and investment groups to strengthen girls' social support systems to break the cycles of violence against girls.
OUR IMPACT
In over a decade, Msichana Empowerment Kuria has grown substantially, from working with a handful of girls to more than 1000 annually.Today, we are a leader on the frontlines of ending violence against girls
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girls enrolled back to school after teen pregnancy and child marriage
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girls graduated from primary and secondary school without undergoing FGM and child marriage.
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menstrual health care essentials provided to adolescent’s girls since 2011
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of Female Genital Mutilation & Child Marriage cases prevented as a result of our girl-led safe spaces
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girl survivors supported to access health and legal services.
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women (20-60 years) trained on financial resilience since 2015 through our women income and investment groups.
