KENYA
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- By Tina Huesing, Germany/USA
ICUUW member Siro Wildah Kwamboka, a women's ministry leader in Nairobi, Kenya, is working in her local community on a food sustainability project. She shared a presentation and a video with us that we shared with the larger UU community at our stand in the exhibit hall of the UUA General Assembly in Baltimore. Siro and her minister Justine Magara also provided us with beautiful objects from Kenya that we raffled off. (See Article on the Raffle)
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- By ICUUW Staff
ICUUW member Siro Wildah Kwamboka, a women ministry leader in Nairobi, Kenya, is working in her local community on a food sustainability project. She shared a presentation and a video with us that we shared with the larger UU community at our stand in the exhibit hall of General Assembly in Baltimore. Siro and her minister Justine Magara also provided us with beautiful objects from Kenya that we raffled off. All visitors at the GA booth in Baltimore and all of our ICUUW members were invited to enter the raffle. The lucky winners were
Vanessa Cowie of North Carolina - bracelet
Rev Jenny Peek of Idaho - Kenya magnet
Niel Leon of Maryland - warrior magnet
Kelly Sackheim of New York - basket
They each received their prizes in the mail shortly after GA.
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- By ICUUW Staff
In-Country Organizations ICUUW has previously partnered with:
Tunawiri Pamoja (“Let’s Grow Together”), a women-led community-based organization in western Kenya addressing unending challenges facing young women: child marriage, child pregnancies, menstrual health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, poverty, and gender inequality. Tunawiri Pamoja founder Noel Lutomia is a former member of the ICUUW board of Directors (2021-2023).
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- By Noel Lutomia, Project Coordinator, Founder of Tunawiri Pamoja, Kenya
Tunawiri Pamoja's Young Women's Business Program in Mumias (Western Kenya), implemented in partnership with ICUUW, is focusing on building young women’s capacities in the informal economy for long-term success.
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- By Noel Lutomia, Founder of Tunawiri Pamoja, Kenya
The Tunawiri Pamoja's Young Women's Business Program in Mumias (Western Kenya), implemented in partnership with the International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women, is focusing on building young women’s capacities in the informal economy for long-term success.
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- By Noel Lutomia, Project Manager, Tunawiri Pamoja
Tunawiri Pamoja’s “Young Women's Business Program” in Mumias town, Kakamega county, Western Kenya aims to develop young Kenyan women’s capacities for long-term success by providing knowledge, skills, resources, and tools regarding land and property rights, family planning, as well as basic business and leadership skills.
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"We must all do more to lift up women and girls in every walk of life” (António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, 19 September 2022)
During the global health crisis, many women informal workers in Kenya - relying on daily wages - lost their livelihoods. COVID-19 has also exacerbated gender-based violence and health inequalities. In October 2022, ICUUW teamed up with Kenyan NGO Tunawiri Pamoja, founded by ICUUW board member Noel Lutomia, for a Faithify campaign to help 25 marginalized young Kenyan women thrive.
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Our gratitude go to all who responded to the urgent new challenges facing girls in Western Kenya. Our appeal over the summer raised $1,800 for our partners Acacia in Kenya (AIK)!