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🌟 Get to Know Akili Dada 🌟

Over the past few months we’ve had some new people follow us and we thought it would be great if they could know who we are!

Swipe through to learn more about us! ➡️

#AkiliDada #GirlsLeadership #Empowerment #AfricanWomen #GetToKnowUs

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They didn't know it had a name.

Then they realised most of their community didn't either.

So a group of young women in Kwale, Stawisha Dada alumni of Akili Dada, started asking why GBV cases kept disappearing before reaching resolution.

The answer: fear. Of witchcraft. Of blame. Of a community turning on the people who spoke up.

They built dialogue spaces to work through it anyway, in places like Kinondo Social Hall. Some husbands forbade their wives from attending. They kept going.

The result: Imara Sauti helped shape the memoranda behind Kwale County's SGBV Act.

Watch their full story: [https://t.co/ZP3mCW3aiz]

#AfricanWomenLead #HerJourneyOurLegacy

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#mondayaffirmations

It's always a blessing to see another week, here's to a great one ahead.

Share with someone who needs to hear this. 🤎

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Their experience reminds us that meaningful youth leadership starts with more than giving young people a platform.

It means listening to them, trusting their analysis of their communities, and giving them the space and tools to act.

At Akili Dada, we believe young women should not have to wait to be called leaders.

They are already identifying problems, mobilising others and imagining better futures for their communities.

That is the power of investing in young women's leadership.

#africanwomenlead #herjourneyourlegacy #internationalyouthday

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What happens when young women see a challenge in their community and decide they can be part of the solution?

For 10 young women in Samburu County, it became We For Teens — a collective response to teenage pregnancy.

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#AMPLIFYHer

[AMPLIFY Girls @AMPLIFY_Girls]

Join us in welcoming Mordecai Odera, Flavia Mwangovya, and Faith Phiri, our newest members of the AMPLIFY Girls Africa Board!

At the heart of our work is a belief that girls’ voices, leadership, and agency matter, and that lasting change requires strong, committed leadership across the continent.

Our new Board members bring diverse experiences, perspectives, and expertise that will help guide AMPLIFY Girls as we continue building a stronger ecosystem for adolescent girls and the organisations working alongside them.

#AMPLIFYHer

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Their vision was clear:

Women seen.
Women heard.
Women included.
Women safe.

Their story showed what young women's leadership could look like when learning became action rooted in community.

As we marked #InternationalYouthDay, we celebrated young women who weren't waiting for the future.
They were already shaping it.

#StawishaDada

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POV: The seat wasn't reserved for you.
So you brought your own chair.

For 9 young women in Kilifi, leadership meant creating the space they wanted to see.

After Stawisha Dada, they came together and formed Empower Her Initiative, with a shared purpose: creating change for women and girls in their community.

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They identified barriers affecting women and girls, from land ownership and education to participation and gender equality.

Through community dialogues, rights training and engagement with community gatekeepers, they turned what they had learned into action.

And they began seeing shifts: young women were stepping forward, speaking up and participating in spaces that had not always included them.

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4 counties. 4 different contexts. 1 common aspiration.

From Turkana to Kilifi, Kwale to Samburu, Stawisha Dada alumnae turned leadership into action — identifying challenges, organising, raising their voices and creating solutions rooted in their communities.

Different realities. Shared aspirations:

To be heard. To lead. To create change.

As we look ahead to #InternationalYouthDay, we celebrate young women who aren’t waiting for the future.

They are shaping it.

#StawishaDada

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#MondayAffirmation ✨

The path we create today can make the journey easier for those who come after us. Here’s to leading with purpose and leaving the door wider open than we found it.

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What if your next meeting could open doors beyond the boardroom?

Whether you're planning a meeting, training, workshop, or podcast recording, Akili Dada offers thoughtfully designed spaces to bring your ideas to life.

When you book with us, every shilling generated from your booking goes directly towards the Akili Dada Scholarship Programme, supporting girls to access education and leadership opportunities. The proceeds are invested in the programme, not taken as profit.

Swipe through to explore our spaces, amenities, and rates, then get in touch to reserve your preferred space.

[Youth Voices & Action Initiative(YVAI) @Yvai_org]

From SRHR and gender justice to economic agency, climate action, technology, and meaningful participation in decision making, young leaders from across the continent are not just in the room they’re shaping the agenda.

@KilifiCountyGov @aphrc

[KNESWO FEMINIST INITIATIVE @refugee36214]

KNESWO Feminist Initiative is proud to join the AWID Membership Meet-Up in Nairobi, strengthening feminist solidarity and collective action.

#AWID #FeministMovement #KNESWO

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Happy new month, Akili Dada Community! 😊

A new month is a fresh reminder that you are capable, resilient, and worthy of every opportunity that comes your way.

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African women have always shaped this continent.

This #PanAfricanWomensDay, we honour the generations of women whose leadership and collective action have advanced justice, expanded opportunities and transformed communities across Africa.

At Akili Dada, we remain committed to investing in girls and young women as the leaders shaping Africa's future.

#AfricanWomenLead

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Over the past few weeks, we've been sharing what outcome harvesting revealed across Kilifi, Kwale, Turkana and Samburu through #ClosingTheGap.

What stood out wasn't simply that young women completed training.

It was what they chose to do afterwards.

They returned to their communities to mentor their peers, lead conversations on sexual and reproductive health and rights, strengthen referral pathways, challenge harmful myths and create spaces where other young women could access accurate information and support.

We also saw something equally important: communities came alongside them. Parents, teachers, religious leaders, health workers and local leaders became part of the change, reminding us that lasting progress is built collectively.

As we celebrate the young women across Kilifi, Kwale, Turkana and Samburu, we celebrate their leadership, commitment and the impact they've created within their own communities.

Join us in celebrating them.

#ClosingTheGap #AfricanWomenLead

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In Turkana, 19% of girls aged 15–19 have already been pregnant. 59% of women have no formal education. Stigma and distance keep girls away from the health services they need. This is the reality Closing the Gap was built to shift.

Our approach centered on training young women from Turkana as SRHR advocates in their own communities. They've run mentorship clubs, led dialogues with elders and parents, and connected girls to youth-friendly health services.

As a result, girls who can now tell SRHR myth from fact. Young mothers are seeking care instead of avoiding it. Chiefs who once resisted are now advocating alongside us.

This is a testament that,when you trust young women with knowledge and leadership, they transform their communities.

#closingthegap

[AMPLIFY Girls @AMPLIFY_Girls]

The Kenya🇰🇪 CDO wellness retreat is currently ongoing!👏A chance for leaders from our partner organizations to slowdown, take time for themselves and prioritize their healing and well-being.

This is a continuation of the CDO Wellness Program, launched last year in partnership with Healing Together , starting with Rwanda and Uganda, in response to the ongoing need to address personal and vicarious trauma, and the realities of burnout that CDO leaders experience as they respond to girls' needs in the communities.

Stay tuned for updates on the Tanzania and Malawi retreats, happening later this year.
#AMPLIFYHer

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#mondayaffirmation
As you step into the week, just be willing to show up as yourself, fully, and keep going.

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Every programme has a starting point. Ours starts with a girl who wouldn't speak in a meeting.

For two years, we made a deliberate choice in Samburu: young women would be positioned as leaders, mentors, and advocates from the very beginning of the project, not as an outcome to work toward, but as the starting premise itself.

That choice shaped everything that followed. Leadership development, SRHR education, peer mentorship, education support, and mental well-being were not run as separate workstreams competing for a girl's time and attention. They were built as one connected model, because the young women in Samburu were never facing one barrier at a time.

Mentorship reached 300 girls directly. But the number that matters more is what happened around them — a ripple that moved into public forums, local leadership engagement, and community conversations that hadn't existed before.
#closingthegap