Stephanie Jade

Feminist|| Rights Advocate|| Self Made

[Zamara Foundation @Zamara_fdn]

OUR 10 DEMANDS:

1. Declare femicide and GBV a national crisis.

2. Implement the GBV Taskforce recommendations.

3. Act on missing and murdered women and children cases.

4. Ensure accountability and swift investigations.

5. Fund survivor-centered support systems.

6. Strengthen prevention and protection mechanisms.

7. End institutional silence and negligence.

8. Improve transparency on femicide cases.

9. Invest in protection for women and girls.

10. Build a Kenya where women and children can exist safely and freely.

Stop killing women!!

#EndFemicideKE #ZamaraVoices

[Zamara Foundation @Zamara_fdn]

At 12 noon, Nairobi stood still.

Women wept openly.
Others held strangers.
Others sang “We Are The World” together like a prayer for a softer country.

For one moment, grief became collective.
And the streets carried every woman and child who never made it home.

#EndFemicideKE #ZamaraVoices

[Zamara Foundation @Zamara_fdn]

Today, we joined our sisters to sit on the streets of Nairobi carrying names.
Not statistics, or headlines.

Names.

We mourned, screamed. And remembered.

Because being a woman in Kenya should not feel like surviving every day.

#EndFemicideKE #ZamaraVoices

[Tabitha Mugure @mugure_tabitha]

@TheLegalCaravan When you have the knowledge it becomes easier to make the right choice.

#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights
@TheLegalCaravan

[Haki Zako 🇰🇪 @hakizako]

@TheLegalCaravan African families come in many forms, from single parents, blended families, and child-headed families. Recognition means valuing every structure that provides love and care.

#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

As civil society, we are documenting, organizing, and building power from the ground up.

#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights
@TheLegalCaravan

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

Abortion restrictions do not reduce abortions.

Every lawmaker who has voted against safe abortion access while speaking about protecting families, we will not let you forget.
#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

Street children are the consequences of governments that chose not to invest in social protection, housing, and economic security.

Fund solutions
Every child counts

#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

Families are central to sustainable development 2030 agenda

Child benefits, parental leave, universal healthcare, affordable childrcare

Where is the implementation?
Where is the funding?
Where is the urgency?
#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

Policymakers: queer guardians exist in your constituencies.
They pay taxes, raise children, and contribute to communities.

Your policies are incomplete when you do not legally recognize and protect queer guardians.

#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

To religious and cultural institutions weaponizing "family" to shame women who leave abusive marriages:
You are not protecting families. You are protecting abusers.

Accountability is coming.
#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

Withholding CSE leaves children uninformed, unprotected and vulnerable to abuse.

Every government that bans CSE while claiming to protect families is complicit in the harm that follows.

#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

We will outlast the anti-rights groups flooding African policy spaces.
Their agendas are not serving us.
They are the same people making progressive laws in their countries but coming back to oppress us

Our diversity predates your interference.
#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

When the government talks about "family values."
Which families?

Not the woman in an abusive home and no legal aid
Not a girl denied CSE and then punished for a pregnancy
Not the child on the street with no safety net

Fake values protect no one
#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[judith olive @AjudithOlive]

To every government and policymaker marking the international Day of Families today, your statement means nothing without your budgets.

Show us the line items for childcare, SRHR, GBV response, and social protection.

We are watching.
#Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights

[It's JAUYOMA🇰🇪 @Sirokumu_]

Join today’s conversation advocating for inclusive policies that protect diverse families and guarantee equal rights, dignity, and wellbeing for everyone equally. #Everyfamilycounts #TLC4Rights @TheLegalCaravan

[Sabali 👌🏾 @CoolnessHQ]

@Sirokumu_ @TheLegalCaravan If it’s your life, it should be your decision: if, when, and how to build a family. No one should be denied the right to decide their own family future. #Everyfamilycounts
#TLC4Rights
@TheLegalCaravan

[Zurih Juma @zeizellSmith]

Across African history, storytelling within families has preserved language, identity, resistance, and culture. Families remain one of the strongest foundations for passing down knowledge, values, and resilience. #Everyfamilycounts #TLC4Rights @TheLegalCaravan

[Zurih Juma @zeizellSmith]

Many harmful practices justified in the name of “tradition” have historically denied young women autonomy, healthcare access, inheritance, and education. Progress means protecting dignity while preserving positive cultural values. #Everyfamilycounts #TLC4Rights @TheLegalCaravan

[Zurih Juma @zeizellSmith]

History reminds us that families evolve with time. Urbanization, migration, education, technology, and changing social realities continue to shape how African families live, love, and support one another today. #Everyfamilycounts #TLC4Rights @TheLegalCaravan