The Women’s and Adolescent Health Rights program was initiated five years ago in Baringo County, Kenya. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education of the region, Mundo Posible developed a capacity-building program in menstrual, sexual, and reproductive health rights in the region’s public primary and secondary schools. This program was specially focused on schools with a student population from the Ilchamus ethnic minority. Over these years, the program has been implemented in many public schools...
The women of the Network for Empowerment of Women (NEW) in Baringo County hail from various regions within Baringo South sub-county. They serve as leaders of Ilchamus women’s groups, voluntary associations comprising 20 to 30 women who come together to engage in diverse income-generating activities. Traditionally, Ilchamus women are expected to stay at home, caring for the family and livestock, which is an exceptionally arduous task in the semi-arid region where water is scarce and must be manually transported in...
How is life in your community? Which are the main challenges faced by women here? We asked these questions to Salina, who lives in a rural distant community in Baringo county, Kenya, when we went to visit her women group for the first time a few months ago. “A woman is overworked at home, she wakes up early and sleeps late, everything depends on her. Life here is very hard. We have scarcity of water. The father has got no activities...
It was one of the hottest days of the drought season in Baringo, Kenya, when Christie-Lee and her daughter Coco came with us to one of the training sessions for the rural women groups in Baringo. This was going to be the third session with two rural women groups from Kailer region, who have joined together the program of The Little Big Project Kenya, to receive several sessions in menstrual, sexual and reproductive health rights and income generating activities. Previously,...
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