Kenya
Ann Njogu, the executive director of Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW)—an AJWS grantee—has been instrumental in building CREAW as an organizational leader in eradicating sexual and gender-based violence to help Kenya become a country that actualizes womens rights, increases womens access to legal education and trauma counseling, and sustains a national peace-building process.
Projects in Kenya
Arid Lands Development Focus (ALDEF)
Girl-Child Empowerment Project
To increase the enrollment and retention of girls in secondary school by providing scholarships and sanitary pads, forming girls' clubs, sensitizing communities about girls' rights to education and conducting advocacy at the community and district levels.
Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW)
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Campaign
To launch a campaign advocating for passage of the Reproductive Health Bill by lobbying key stakeholders, conducting a legal review, engaging civil society involvement and raising public awareness about sexual and reproductive health rights through forums, workshops and the media.
Education Center for Advancement of Women (ECAW)
Preventing FGM and Promoting Women's Rights
To promote women's rights, including girls' access to education, through workshops, girls' clubs and community-conversation forums.
Fortress of Hope Africa
Okoa Wasichana Wetu Project
To build the social and economic capital of adolescent girls through youth-led community outreach, safe spaces, psychosocial support and training on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, life skills and entrepreneurship.
Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT)
Defending the Resource Rights of Lake Turkana Communities
To advance the natural resource rights of Lake Turkana communities through national and international advocacy to prevent construction of the Gibe III dam.
Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK)
Capacity Building and Human Rights Advocacy
To strengthen the capacity and support the growth of GALCK as it initiates efforts to decriminalize homosexuality; document and report human rights violations; increase access to LGBTI-friendly health services and build partnerships and alliances.
Heshima Kenya
Girls Empowerment Project
To build the long-term self-sufficiency of unaccompanied refugee girls in Nairobi by providing case management services, basic education, life-skills training, vocational training, financial literacy and income-generation through a cooperative.
Kenya Natural Resources Alliance (KENRA)
Alliance Building and Advocacy for Community-Based Natural Resource Rights Organizations
To enhance the capacity of Kenya Natural Resources Alliance to coordinate, build the capacity of and elevate the voices of community-based organizations focused on natural resource rights; and to petition the Kenyan parliament to enact a new mining bill that respects the land and mineral rights of indigenous communities.
Kenya Orphans Rural Development Programme (KORDP)
Community Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
To strengthen the capacity of community groups to sustain the operations of the childhood-development centers through initiatives that promote income generation and food-security; provision of basic services; and HIV-prevention efforts.
Kilili Self Help Project (KSHP)
Women-Led Biointensive Farming Training
To promote food security by training women farmer groups in biointensive sustainable agriculture, marketing, entrepreneurship, HIV/AIDS and home-based care.




