Hadale during a conference in Uganda addressing climate change and its impact on young girls and women. The conference was facilitated by UN Women. Hadale Saru is an adolescent girls and young women advocate, mentor, and facilitator from Mukuru Viwandani Ward. She comes from a family of five children, and belongs to the Borana tribe. […]
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Margaret is a resilient 21-year-old young woman. Margaret Nyambura is a resilient 21-year-old young woman from Mukuru Viwandani Ward. She is the first-born in a family of 5 siblings and lives with her younger sister in Tassia. When she was enrolled in the project, Margaret was at home due to a lack of school fees.
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Vyonne Owade is a single mother living in Mathare Constituency, Nairobi. She is an empowered young woman. She works at the DREAMS Program site office in Hospital Ward as a Mentor, Trainer of Mentors and facilitator of the Shuga Intervention that are key in HIV prevention among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW). Yvonne’s story
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My name is Naomi Nyatichi Nyagaka. I am an 18-year-old high school graduate. I sat for my high school national examinations this year and attained a mean grade of A- (minus). I am supposed to join Daystar University but due to financial instability I am still at home. My ambition is to become a nurse
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My name is Tyson Okoth. I am 18 years old and currently in my second year of high school. I live in the Mukuru kwa Reuben informal settlements in Nairobi with my single mother. I have not been going to school since mid-term break because of the lack of school fees. My mother has been
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made lives incredibly difficult all over the world, with Faustina being no exception. Faustina lives in the Mukuru Kwa Reuben informal settlements in Nairobi County. When the pandemic struck, she was already struggling to put food on the table. As a single mother of 4 children, the responsibility of taking care
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Fiona M* is widowed and a mother to 3 sons living in Kayole in Nairobi. She and her 10-year-old last-born son are HIV positive, which she discovered during a visit to antenatal clinic around the time of his birth. Upon finding out her status, Fiona became severely depressed. She sought the help of a social
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Mary* is a mother of two children living in Kayole, Nairobi, and was referred to the MWENDO project through the Eastern Deanery AIDS Relief Program (EDARP) in Komarock for enrollment in September 2019. Her story is an all too familiar one. She is a survivor of Gender-Based Violence and a person living with HIV. She
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Phian is a 21-year-old beautiful young woman born and raised in Mathare informal settlements. Like many young women in the area, she struggled to make ends meet. When the DREAMS project scaled up to reach Mathare informal settlements, she was among the first vulnerable young women to be enrolled. By then, she didn’t have a
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Margaret Kwamboka Barake is a highly vulnerable 48 year old widow taking care of her 4 children. The family is staying in a single rented room in Kayole Central Ward in Embakasi sub-county. HOPE worldwide Kenya through the MWENDO* Project is supporting her with emergency fund cash transfers of KES 2,000 (about USD 20) per month for
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