Last week, Kakenya’s Dream won Public Interest Registry’s 2023 .ORG Impact Award for Community Building! The annual .ORG Impact Awards celebrate individuals and organizations whose mission-driven work tackles a range of global challenges to make the world a better place. Kakenya’s Dream is honored to have been recognized among nearly 1,000 formidable organizations from […]
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Leading Kenyan TV station KTN News featured our programs this week in a prime time spotlight! In 2020, we launched our Linda Dada campaign (which means “protect a sister” in Swahili) in response to the alarming surge in teen pregnancies across Kenya during the COVID-19 lockdowns. It was a moment that laid bare the reality that while
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Our work at Kakenya’s Dream doesn’t happen in a vacuum. We rely on allies across place and sector to advance our mission. Research shows that 96% of organizations that engage male allies make measurable progress toward their goals for gender inclusion. Allyship is essential to achieving gender equality and we want to encourage everyone to
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At Kakenya’s Dream, we’re on a mission to end harmful cultural practices, like child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), that violate girls’ rights and undermine their access to education. But these issues are extremely sensitive and can be difficult to talk about. So how do we go about addressing these topics with the communities
Dialogue for Transformation: How to End Harmful Cultural Practices Read More »
Magdalene is one of our newest students at our Kakenya Center for Excellence II (KCE II). Like countless other girls across rural Kenya, she endured a stifling drought, the collapse of her family’s livelihood, and the threat of forced marriage. This is her inspiring story of resilience. Magdalene on her first day of school at
Light at the End of the Tunnel: Magdalene’s Story Read More »
Changes are in the works within Kenya’s education system. As part of those changes, we are excited to announce the addition of junior high schools on our KCE I and II campuses! Here’s a breakdown of the Kenyan government’s new system and what it means for our schools. In response to substandard learning outcomes across
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Kenya is a microcosm of the global climate crisis. Extreme weather events — including simultaneous drought and flash flooding — have become more frequent and destructive, hitting rural communities like ours the hardest. In response, Kakenya’s Dream is promoting climate resilience and empowering the next generation of environmental leaders. Since late 2020, Kenya has been
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To bridge the gap between education and employability, we provide our students and graduates with the technical skills and career training they need to succeed beyond our classrooms. At the same time, we’re addressing the digital divide that puts girls in rural communities at a steep disadvantage. In Kenya, the K-12 academic year ends in
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Today is Menstrual Hygiene Day, and this year’s theme is “making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030.” At Kakenya’s Dream, we’re promoting menstrual health and bringing attention to an issue that quietly endangers millions of girls around the world: period poverty. Period poverty is defined as the lack of access to adequate menstrual
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“Women in my generation never had the chance to pursue our education because of the retrogressive culture in our community that consistently robs girls of their rights and dreams. But we have vowed to ensure that our daughters get an education.” Mary Mekuro, Beatrice Kipaki, and Mary Cherus are three Maasai mothers from the communities
From One Generation to the Next: A Parent’s Perspective on Generational Progress Read More »
We are celebrating 1,000 girls enrolled at our schools! 1,000 girls protected from child marriage. 1,000 girls with the chance to write their own stories.
Help us reach the next 1,000 girls. A generous donor is matching up to $5,000 in donations YOU raise for Kakenya’s Dream.
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