I WANT TO BE RICH
LUDIA OCHIENG -19 years Ludia and Patrick Ochieng live in a modest one-roomed mudhouse in Suna West, Migori County as man and wife. She’s 19, he’s 21. Their son, George Innocent is almost two years old. “I named him Innocent because he is the most polite child ever, never cries, always happy, and could never […]
ITS NOT TOO LATE TO DREAM AGAIN
EMILY AWUOR -19 years We don’t have to own 200 panties to be clean!” Those words blare from a screechy microphone from a facilitator talking to teenage girls gathered in a tent in Suna West, Migori County. It’s graduation day for the Binti Shupavu program where these giddy and hopeful adolescent girls – 25 of […]
Moving beyond talk: A practical guide to integrating economic empowerment and sexual reproductive health into programs for adolescent girls
By Meghan Cutherell (A360), Dharini Bhuvanendra (Kore Global) and Katherine Nichol (Kore Global) The resonance of A360’s interventions have always been aided by our ability to offer more than just contraceptive service provision to girls. Including a life and/or vocational skills component in our SRH-focused programs allowed us to respond to what girls said they […]