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 by providing scholarships, sensitizing communities about girls' rights to education and conducting advocacy at the community and district levels.
Carolina for Kibera (CFK)
Binti Pamoja Training Center
To increase CFK's sustainability by building a multi-purpose training center that will house the Binti Pamoja Center, a reproductive health and women's rights program for adolescent girls. The center will also generate income for the program through rentals to other organizations.
Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW)
Adolescent Reproductive Health Rights
To enable adolescent girls to defend their sexual and reproductive health rights through school-based trainings, access to legal aid and advocacy for a national reproductive health rights bill.
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 about 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 and to prevent construction of the Gibe III dam—which threatens their lives and livelihoods—through national and international advocacy.
Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK)
Capacity Building and Human Rights Advocacy
To build the organization's capacity through the production of staff manuals and communication materials, and to educate LGBTI people about their human rights through a know-your-rights brochure on the penal code.
Heshima Kenya
Girls Empowerment Project
To build the self-sufficiency of refugee girls in Nairobi through the provision of basic education; vocational, life-skill and financial-literacy training; case management services; and income-generation support.
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 and Institutional Strengthening
To promote food security by training women farmer groups in biointensive sustainable agriculture, marketing, entrepreneurship, HIV/AIDS and home-based care.








