Day: July 9, 2025

School Advocacy Project

To Advance the Rights of Children and Youth, HFAW with support from IMWCY prepared the project content with consideration to ensure physical and sexual safety, emotional well-being and spiritual

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Finance and literacy trainings and mentorship

Since 2014 HFAW has promoted individual entrepreneurship primarily for women and a few men by endorsing interest-free loans through www.kivazip.org to 139 first and repeat loans worth $35,000 with over 94%

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Advocacy in Markets, road show and community walk

HFAW also sensitizes the community against FGM through market flees since the launch of its first popular education training in 2014. It has also collaborated with the National Anti

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A Kenyan doctor Seeks to keep FGM high and alive in Kenya-Where she is getting it wrong

Believe it or not, a female doctor in Kenya, who has practiced medicine for over 26 years, filed a petition supporting FGM  the very act that has adverse health effects

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President Uhuru Kenyatta Drums Support for the End of FGM in Kenya

President Uhuru Kenyatta has promised that he will end FGM by 2022. Speaking during the signing of a memorandum of understanding by cultural and religious leaders from twenty counties which

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3 Key Issues Highlighted during the ICPD25, Nairobi Summit

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) ended on 14th, November 2019. The event was a result of the revolutionary Programme of Action towards accessible and comprehensive

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I saved a Girl from FGM, years later she surprised me with a flat screen TV

Edward Otinga’s campaign against harmful practices that affect health like FGM started when he began field visits to the community in Nyamira, Kenya. He is a community health

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I Regret Pushing My Daughters to Undergo FGM; I Vow to Protect My Grand-daughters

Nyamira and Kisii, regions predominantly occupied by the Abagusii, record relatively extreme persistence of FGM prevalence-if the report by the 2014 Kenya Demographic Health Survey is anything to

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Problems the Deaf Wish We Knew; Anne Mwenesi, A Sign Language Interpreter

Anne Mwenesi is a teacher by profession and sign language interpreter by passion. You can tell this by how graceful she is while interpreting during the financial literacy

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Being A Woman, living with Disability, and Working in the Construction Industry: Hellen Kerina

Polio causes a range of physical disabilities.  It leads to muscle weaknesses which may leave a person disabled. Although it often affects legs, it may affect the diaphragm,

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