BINTI SHUPAVU SHAPED MY LIFE

ANASTASIA MURUNGU – 18 years It was the dimples on the boy; two craters filled with temptations. At 15, Anastasia fell for Baraka who sent her young life in a whirlwind. “It started innocently enough,” she says. “He’d walk me home after school. Or bring me fruits in school.” Then she started skipping school. “I’d […]

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 […]