Girl Kind Kenya

Girlkind Kenya is a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), working in Kenya. Their main aim is to make a positive impact in the lives of adolescent girls and women empowerment in the rural area.

The organization intervenes on Girls child rights, HIV/Aids awareness, life skills, women empowerment project in rural, Distribution of free Sanitary Pads to keep girls in schools, and Sexual Reproductive Health Services in the community. They have programs in gender based violence, with much emphasis on FGM, domestic violence and rape.

Girlkind have set up a women center in a place called Jarirot as a base where they train FGM survivors to have their independent livelihoods and to abandon the cut, the aim is to provide alternative livelihoods and to diversify livelihood options for the pastoralists in the light of climate change rendering nomadic pastoralism unsustainable. Many households are forced to abandon pastoralism and seek employment. The training consists in tailoring, tie and dye and beauty therapy through application of hiina, among many other options including weaving, baking, etc. They also do case management on Rape and Domestic violence victims as well as giving psychcosocial support through provision of NFIs (non food items), counseling, and building of referral pathways.

The organization strives to improve girls’ education in kenya as it  is a strategic development priority. Better educated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labour market, earn higher incomes, have fewer children, marry at a later age, and enable better health care and education for their children, should they choose to become mothers.