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
Carolina for Kibera (CFK)
The Binti Pamoja Center
To provide support for a reproductive health and girls' empowerment program in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.
Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW)
Adolescent Reproductive Health Rights
To educate adolescent girls about their sexual and reproductive health rights and to facilitate their access to legal redress.
Education Center for Advancement of Women (ECAW)
FGM Prevention and Women's Health Promotion
To sensitize communities about the harmful effects of FGM (female genital mutilation) and run a girls' leadership and empowerment program in Kuria.
Fortress of Hope Africa
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Project
To promote HIV/AIDS awareness and provide counseling and life-skills training to adolescent girls.
Heshima Kenya
Girls Empowerment Project
To provide basic education and life skills training to 45 refugee girls in Nairobi.
Kenya Orphans Rural Development Programme (KORDP)
Community Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
To alleviate the impact of HIV/AIDS among orphans and vulnerable children in Budalangi.
Kilili Self Help Project (KSHP)
Women-Led Biointensive Farmer Training
To enable women farmers to strengthen their livelihoods by promoting biointensive farming, and to support an HIV/AIDS awareness and care program.
Kisumu Medical Education Trust (K-MET)
Nutrition as a Component of Home-Based Care
To improve nutrition among people living with HIV/AIDS in Kisumu District.
Kisumu Medical Education Trust (K-MET)
The Youth for Youth Program
To increase adolescent girls' awareness about comprehensive reproductive health services.
Northern Aid (NAID)
HIV/AIDS Awareness and Prevention
To conduct an HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention program among pastoralist communities in Mandera.
