Mary at her small restaurant in Mtwapa. The mother of four uses the monthly cash transfer the family receives from our Wasichana Wetu Wafaulu (Let Our Girls Succeed) project to grow her business step by step. This investment supports her and her children in a sustainable way to pay for living costs and school fees. Mary is not the only parent in the project who believes in and works with this concept.
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The #InternationalDayoftheGirlChild was this year commemorated at Banda ra salama. Running with the theme "girl force: unscripted and unstoppable," members present discussed girls challenges, goals and where she hopes to be in future.
A teen mother, who was the guest speaker of the day, got to #RewriteHerStory by sharing her experience of being a mom and a student and how difficult it is to juggle between the two.
Also, our edutainment team presented a skit focussing on positive parenting, banishing teenage pregnancy and early marriages.
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Under the rings of responsibility for child protection, the family is the closest to the child and has a big role to play in matters safeguarding. That is why in our 2019 annual parents meeting, we discussed forms of child abuse, child rights and why most parents do not come forward to report defilement cases.
Also, we informed them on Kesho Kenya 2019 highlights, new projects and achievements.
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Our communication team is in Nairobi for a COMUNDO country meeting. We discuss the new Kenya country programme with a focus on enhancing quality education. Furthermore, we participate on a video production training and network with organizations present.
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Meanwhile, in Kathmandu - Nepal, our team had an opportunity to present the #KeshoKenya Safeguarding Policy to other #SHINE project partners. The aim of this presentation was to shed light on our work. Concerns from participants were that they experience safeguarding incidences in the course of their operations. Some of them do not have a policy in place and thus are not aware of how they can enhance child protection and minimize the risk.
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"Nobody employs you nowadays without a certificate", says Salama. "Education is important if you want to get a job." Therefore, she is attending Kesho Kenya adult literacy class to prepare her for her KCPE exam. As a child, Salama could not attend school as she desired since the family could not afford to pay the fees. Class members learn at our resource center to improve their chances of getting better jobs. Others just want to be able to support their children academically or to run their businesses successfully by improving reading and writing skills.

The adult literacy class is open to anybody and it is free of charge. People can join at any time because they are tutored individually.
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"If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice.
If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees.
If your plan is for 100 years, educate children."
(Confucius)
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Kesho Kenya staff members Damaris and Joshua attend the annual SHINE project workshop which is this year held at the other side of the world - in Nepal's capital Kathmandu! Kenya and Nepal are the only two project countries which are considered safe. Other project partners are in Afghanistan, DR Congo and Palestine.

Integrity Action as lead partner in Kenya expounds on the formation of Joint Working Groups in project school communities. JWG is a pool of school project stakeholders who come together to amicably solve identified problems within the school community.

For more information about SHINE project: ►https://keshokenya.or.ke/shine/:

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What a wonderful start of the weekend! Invited to a friendly match we met the team of Kivukoni School to play netball and football against them. It was really very exciting and even much more fun. Thank you to Kivukoni team for making this possible!
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