UKOO

Feminist CBO
Women, Social justice, MH
'Imposter syndrome is a child of Capitalism and a grandchild of Patriarchy'

#structuralsolutions
#ukoomovement

[The People's Forum @PeoplesForumNYC]

📣🇵🇸NEW YORK CITY: ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE!!! 📣🇵🇸

🚨1PM, Sunday Oct 8
📍Times Square, Broadway & 42nd

Tomorrow, join us to stand with the people of Palestine, who have the right to resist apartheid, occupation & oppression.

✊🏽FREE PALESTINE!

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

Survival 101: A student’s guide to leaving college in one piece
https://t.co/N7WePssKEM

[William Samoei Ruto, PhD @WilliamsRuto]

We are leveraging our strong relations with the United States to enhance trade and investment opportunities, fostering growth and prosperity for our people. This collaboration also includes shared priorities such as security, counterterrorism, climate change mitigation, and the promotion of human rights and democracy.

Held talks with US Senator @ChrisCoons in New York, US.

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

Apparently, this is part of a Kisumu High School dormitory. Have we turned our schools to PRISON CAGES for children from poor homes? This is UNACCEPTABLE! We cannot have our children subjected to DEGRADING CONDITIONS and blame them when they resist. We are not raising slaves. Something must be done to get rid of these slave cages and IMPROVE the quality of education and the LIVING CONDITIONS for all Kenyan learners!

Even in the worst of times, we didn’t have triple deckers in over-crowded cages in such degrading conditions!

No learning and certainly no education can take place under those horrible conditions!

Anyone who supports these slave cages isn’t human and cannot be a responsible parent!

[GBV Prevention Net @GBVnet]

Violence is a form of reinforcing gender inequality and gender inequality continues to thrive because of violence against women.

To end violence against women, we must all take a stand to advance gender equality by eliminating harmful gender norms and cultural practices.

[FEMNET @FemnetProg]

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[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

Nonsense. The fuel prices in Kenya are too high…higher than in North America where citizens’ wages are much higher and there are social cushions provided by the State! You are a CS for Trade: stop repeating these nonsensical excuses for the government’s failure to address the vagaries of institutional corruption and mismanagement!

You actually believe that your primary responsibility is to serve PRIVATE ENTERPRISES and not Kenyans who elected President @WilliamsRuto and the Kenya Kwanza administration?

Then you are not fit to serve as a clerk in any public office because you don’t understand your role; nor do you respect Kenyans who pay your huge salary!

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Monday marks two years since girls were banned from attending high school in Afghanistan.

This is an unjustifiable violation of human rights that inflicts long-lasting damage on the entire country.

Girls belong in school. Let them back in.

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

If Kenya had no say over the global economic situation, why did we have elections in August 2022?

If an elected Kenya government has no power to alleviate the impact of the global economic conditions on Kenyans, why did the Kenya Kwanza coalition tell voters that it had BETTER PLANS than Azimio to do exactly that?

Are the chatterers abusing Kenyans know that there are elections coming up in August 2027?

Will you campaign on the platform of doing nothing in the face of the high cost of living? Will you tell Kenyans that the Treasury will be run by the IMF and the World Bank?

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

I only need 6 months to trace and return more than Kshs. 17 Trillion stashed abroad by the Kenyatta and Moi families for a start.

Additionally, I can assist identify and retrieve Kshs. 2Trillion more from other looters like despot Uhuru Kenyatta’s 4 dollar billionaires in another six months.

Within one year, Kenya would have more than enough to pay off all its foreign and domestic debts, create enough quality jobs, build adequate housing for the homeless, make Kenya food secure and start us on an industrialization path!

But are those in charge interested? Nah! They prefer taxing Kenyans to death as plunderers continue to steal.

Then some of them come here to wail that they have no solutions! That higher taxes, more inflation, more lay offs and astronomical commodity prices are the only solutions! And you find over-fed mediocre cheerleaders clapping on X!

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

These are warning signs that someone may be thinking about #suicide ⬇️

🔶 Severe mood changes
🔶 Social withdrawal
🔶 Expressing thoughts or plans about ending their life
🔶 Saying goodbye to close family and friends
🔶 Giving away valued possessions

#SuicidePreventioThese are warning signs that someone may be thinking about #suicide ⬇️

🔶 Severe mood changes
🔶 Social withdrawal
🔶 Expressing thoughts or plans about ending their life
🔶 Saying goodbye to close family and friends
🔶 Giving away valued possessions

#SuicidePreventioThese are warning signs that someone may be thinking about #suicide ⬇️

🔶 Severe mood changes
🔶 Social withdrawal
🔶 Expressing thoughts or plans about ending their life
🔶 Saying goodbye to close family and friends
🔶 Giving away valued possessions

#SuicidePreventioThese are warning signs that someone may be thinking about #suicide ⬇️

🔶 Severe mood changes
🔶 Social withdrawal
🔶 Expressing thoughts or plans about ending their life
🔶 Saying goodbye to close family and friends
🔶 Giving away valued possessions

#SuicidePreventioThese are warning signs that someone may be thinking about #suicide ⬇️

🔶 Severe mood changes
🔶 Social withdrawal
🔶 Expressing thoughts or plans about ending their life
🔶 Saying goodbye to close family and friends
🔶 Giving away valued possessions

#SuicidePrevention

[Raising Voices @RaisingVoices]

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[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

YouTube terminates Andrew Kibe's channel https://t.co/CYiy9HG7iL

[EAC Youth Ambassadors Platform @EAC_yap]

Are you a young person passionate about making an impact in EAC Regional Integration? This is your chance to be the next EAC Youth Ambassador!

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[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania appears before Parliamentary Committee, says they chose Kenya because it is the Silicon Savannah of Africa

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Earlier: President William Ruto arrives at KICC, Nairobi, for day two of the Africa Climate Summit #AfricaClimateSummit23 #ACS23

[Akina Mama wa Afrika @amwaafrika]

📢Voices from the #AfricaClimateSummit23 @WeAreVCA @WGC_Climate @UNFCCC
#FeministClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow

[Mama Rachel Ruto, EGH @MamaRachelRuto]

The actions we take in this decade will have a profound impact on our future. #AfricaClimateSummit23

[AmplifyChange @amplifyfund]

For World Sexual Health Day #wshd2023, AmplifyChange is thrilled to be mainstreaming The Pleasure Principles into our practice and supporting civil society organisations integrating #pleasure into their #SRHR advocacy work. 💪 
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[gatwiri @gatwiri_c]

I live, work and travel between Nairobi, Kajiado and Meru counties frequently. Here's what stands the most about each county (for me):

Meru: small farms and high unemployment rate.

Farms have become so small, they're not commercially viable. This plus failed rainfall seasons the last couple years, most crops are for subsistence, and some stopped cultivation altogether. Dairy farming is still strong, even in the villages, but there's a real struggle with fodder..

Unemployment is so bad though, I know young people, even my own relatives, wasting away at home. You stop by to greet people and everyone is asking for a job for their child.

It's so painful and heartbreaking seeing a young person waste away, doing nothing at home, and this is for those who haven't joined substance/drug abuse or crime.

Their mothers all over worried, and doing all they can to secure jobs for their children, but efforts not amounting to anything. It is a lie, and avoidance when government tells people to create jobs.

Kajiado: Harsh environment conditions and literal fight to eke a living

Growing up in a relatively green area at a time when rains were consistent, and times were easier, I've never encountered struggle for survival until I lived in rural Kajiado. I will not reveal where exactly but its somewhere close to Taveta and Tanzania border.

Everyday is a struggle to exist, from drought that never seems to end, land that is overgrazed, bare soils with big plumes of dust, emaciated cattle and goats, a people that the government forgot, no public hospital or education services, and those that exist are hundreds of kilometers away...

And every food you put on your table, it is out of your blood, sweat and tears... Despite paying so much in taxes including local County taxes when selling cattle/goats. In fact, the government is fighting you and your way of life. So you are fighting both the government and the environment (and conservation folk), and it feels a losing battle. And like there's no one on your corner, it's a lonely battle.

Saving grace is water, a bit of water, that migrant farmers come to do irrigation with. They leave some money circulating in the local economy, but most profits are exported back.

Nairobi: The city of extremes

Its always so interesting to me how there are places you can live in Nairobi that would shield you from problems in this country, we call it Kenya A. In Kenya A, you've access to hospitals that don't have long patient queues, with modern equipment and highly trained staff. You've access to schools and curriculums of your choice. To efficient and modern transport systems.. You are not fighting the environment, and in fact, all systems are catered to you and your money.

If you have proper money, Nairobi is the best city in the world and Kenya A is so far removed from the realities of the rest of the country. There have been times I've wished for that Kenya A life, but really this shouldn't be the case.. We all deserve equal access and opportunities, whether you are in Kenya A, B, Meru or Kajiado. The inequalities in this country are soul crashing.