VOICES FROM THE FIELD

Voices from the Field

FROM YOUNG MOTHER TO BUSINESSWOMAN

BIZUNESH TAYE -16 years Bizunesh’s dream is to buy a car. Nothing too extravagant; maybe something blue in colour, with a small stereo in it

I PLAN TO EXPAND MY BUSINESS

WUBE BELETE – 18 years Wube knows a thing or two about living with your in-laws. She, at 18, attended school but couldn’t proceed past

9JA GIRLS REDEFINED MY STORY

IBIKUNLE OLAITAN – 15 years More than anything, she remembers the excruciating labour. The peeling blue paint of the hospital’s walls. She recalls the deadness

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

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,

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