A girl's right to education in rural Kakamega is not guaranteed by enrollment.
It is threatened daily by period poverty, by a transition to adolescence no one prepares her for, by violence in and around school, and by a silence around her body and her rights that leaves her navigating consequential decisions alone. We work across four interventions to make sure girls not only enter school and thrive to completion.
Our Interventions
Preventing School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV)
UNICEF estimates 1 in 3 learners aged 11–17 experiences SRGBV every year. We build school-wide safety policies, train teachers in trauma-informed response, establish confidential reporting pathways, and engage parents and communities to shift the norms that make schools unsafe. A school that is not safe is not a school. It is a risk.
The Red Memo
In Kenya, 1 in 10 girls misses school during menstruation and for many, absence becomes dropout. We provide menstrual products so no girl misses class, run monthly forums for girls and their parents to break the silence around menstruation, and work with community leaders to dismantle taboos. A girl who manages her period without fear is a girl who stays in school.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
Our CSE sessions deliver age-appropriate, rights-affirming education on consent, bodily autonomy, healthy relationships, and reproductive rights to adolescents and to the parents and guardians who shape what is possible at home. CSE does not take away innocence. Ignorance does.
Teens4Teens Talk
Teens4Teens creates peer-led sessions and mentorship from diverse role models where young people explore life skills, career pathways, and personal development without a ceiling on their aspirations. When a girl sees someone who looks like her in a space she never imagined for herself, something shifts.