HFAW’s Economic Empowerment Initiatives: Building Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender Equity The Hope Foundation for African Women (HFAW) launched its first economic empowerment initiative in recognition of a fundamental
READ MORETo 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
READ MORESince 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%
READ MOREHFAW 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
READ MOREBelieve 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
READ MOREPresident 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
READ MOREThe 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
READ MOREEdward 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
READ MORENyamira 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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