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Green Belt Movement. The Green Belt Movement ( GBM) is an indigenous grassroots organization in Kenya that empowers women through the planting of trees. It is one of the most effective and well-known grassroots organisations addressing the problem of global deforestation. [1] Professor Wangari Maathai established the organization in 1977 under ...
v. t. e. The history of the evolution of the traits of women in Kenya can be divided into Women within Swahili culture, Women in British Kenya, and Kenyan Women post-Independence. [3] The condition and status of the female population in Kenya has faced many changes over the past century. Kenya was a British colony from 1888 until 1963. [4]
The aerial water piping system was the first of its kind in Kenya and is in both Kibera and Mathare. In September 2014, Shining Hope for Communities officially opened SHOFCO-Mathare in Nairobi's second largest slum, Mathare. This site includes another school for girls, a free healthcare clinic and community and economic empowerment programs.
Intersex Awareness Day was first marked in Kenya in 2016. A march in Nairobi was organized by Gama Africa, along with petition presented to parliament and events organized by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. [11] In 2017, work commenced on a "Model Law on the rights of intersex persons in Africa".
The National Council of Women of Kenya ( NCWK) was founded in 1964 to provide coordination among the various women's groups in Kenya. These included groups as varied as the National Nurses Union, Nairobi Business Women, East African Women's League, the Home Economics Association of East Africa, the Mother's Union, the Young Women's Christian ...
Women have been shown to be essential historical, economic and social actors in practically every region of Africa for centuries. Culture In the home. From the 1940s until Morocco's declaration of independence from the tutelage of France in 1956, Moroccan women lived in family units that were "enclosed households" or harems. The tradition of ...
Feminism. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the ...
Jonathan Jackson Foundation (JJF), founded in the year 2019, is a Nairobi-based non-governmental organization that aims to provide sustainable livelihoods for youth and women in informal settlements in Kenya. JJF's transformative agenda is to provide the target group with a fishing rod and teach them how to become self-sustainable.