@maggie_okane@frontlineendfgm@IfrahFoundation@tendasasa@theGCERF@MenEndFGM@UNFPAKen 2/2: The high-level gathering has convened influential women leaders from all 54 African countries to exchange ideas, strengthen partnerships, and develop practical strategies that advance women's leadership, economic empowerment, and sustainable development across the continent.
@EUinKenya@theGCERF@tendasasa@UNFPA@frontlineendfgm@MenEndFGM@WorldVisionKE As part of the project's engagement activities, the KCERP team also paid a courtesy visit to the Habaswein Sub-County Security Team to familiarize them with the project's objectives, foster collaboration, and reinforce partnerships aimed at enhancing community safety.
@EUinKenya@theGCERF@tendasasa@UNFPA@frontlineendfgm@MenEndFGM@WorldVisionKE 2/3: The training leveraged the participants' extensive experience in community-level reporting and engagement, strengthening their capacity to identify, respond to, and report early warning signs while promoting peace, resilience, and social cohesion within their communities.
2/2: The meeting brought together 100 participants (85 male and 15 Female) drawn from the entire county. Media plays a critical role in shaping community perspectives and controls what the members of the community consumes in every day.
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2/2: A total of 64 participants attended the meeting drawn from Csos, police, gender desk, law court, women, religious and youth leaders.
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1/2: Wown convened stakeholders inception meeting for the born perfect caravans funded by German embassy through ifrah foundation and GMC as the lead partners.
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Women Organizing Women Network today co-hosted a dynamic and well-attended engagement forum to launch awareness efforts for the 16 Days of Activism. The gathering brought together a diverse mix of voices, including County Executive Committee members, chief officers.
Mama fatuma hassan, a former practitioner of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), abandoned the practice after gaining awareness through the public sensitization initiatives of the Women Organizing Women Network. Supported by
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Through our radio campaign during the August holiday, we managed to reached community members to the farthest border points - Kenya - Somalia and Kenya - Ethiopia borders. Radio is instrumental in mass sensitization of Fgm Supported by
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Our male champions and provincial administration have been instrumental in monitoring FGM activities during the school holidays. This strategy has been key in ensuring those who subject girls to FGM are reported to the authority and action taken against them
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From cutters to advocates: Wajir County women leading the fight against FGM.βFGM was risky to us as practitioners. We were at risk of contracting contagious diseases like HIV and AIDS during the practice good message through singing.
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#WOWN campaign has tackled FGM from a religious leaders, community leaders, and cultural perspective. Here, a former 'cutter', a community leader, and other cutters whose work was to cut explain why the practice should be eradicated
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Active involvement of men and boys can help end female genital mutilation Furthermore, eliminating FGM does not benefit only girls and women. Supported by
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WOWN is committed to reaching every hotspot village in Wajir county to stop cutting that is getting worse every passing day. As a Frontline organization from Wajir, we understand the terrain, we can manage the risk and we can reach the unreachable. Supported by
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