Empowering Girls in Kibera
Kibera slum develoment
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Summary
This project provides a safe space and advocacy platform for adolescent girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya to fight gender-based violence and discrimination.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Only 1% of girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya have access to an all-girl, development program. Young women in the slum aged 15-24 are contracting HIV at a rate 5 times that of their male counterparts. The Binti Pamoja Center creates a safe space for adolescent girls to discuss reproductive health issues and to fight gender-based violence and discrimination. The Center also offers educational scholarships for secondary school, financial literacy training, and peer education training.
Activities
If we provide scholarships, financial literacy, HIV/AIDS training, leadership skills, as well as a physical, safe space for girls and young women in the Kibera slum, we can help these women lead healthy lives and become agents of social change.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $18,274
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $6,726
Total Funding Goal: $25,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The Binti Pamoja Center will provide 100 adolescent girls and young women with a safe space to discuss and tackle gender-based violence and discrimination, supporting them to make educated choices, lead healthy lives, and become community leaders.
Project Message
You start seeing projects like CFK expand, and over time you see more pathways out of Kibera. More people are able to grow businesses. More young people are able to take advantage of education.
- Barack Obama, US Senator & Democratic Presidential Candidate
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Rye Barcott
President
FedEx Global Education Center, Third Floor
301 Pittsboro St, Campus Box 5145
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
United States
330-904-4859
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Carolina for Kibera, Inc.
FedEx Global Education Center
UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Box 5145
Chapel Hill,
North Carolina
27599-5145
United States
919-962-6362
http://cfk.unc.edu
Carolina for Kibera, Inc.'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Social Change through Sport for 5000 Kibera Youth |
 Recycling 2,000 Tons of Trash in Kibera |
 Kicking AIDS Out of Kibera slum - Nairobi, Kenya |
Carolina for Kibera, Inc.'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Carolina for Kibera, Inc. |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Kenya
and can also be found under 
Children.
For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on December 19, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 1, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
CFK Day in Kibera
By Rye Barcott - Founder and President , December 19, 2008 04:16 PM
This year’s celebration was attended by more than 5000 youth representing each CFK program as well as many other organizations and initiatives within in the slum. The youth of the Sports Program held a procession through the slum with banners reading “Tuliza Amani Mtaani,” or “We Want Peace in Kibera.” Over 1000 youth from various programs made the 4km hike as part of the parade!
As part of this year’s celebrations, CFK held a community forum in which the youth participated in the reading of poems and narratives as well as the performance of dances and skits. In addition to the community forum, the young women of Binti Pamoja also held a talent show for members from all the youth programs. Winners were rewarded with school uniforms, books and pens. The winning teams from the Sports Program won uniforms for each player. Finally, CFK also conducted an awards ceremony in which provost leadership awards were awarded to emerging young leaders within the community.
According to our Executive Director, “it was a day of fun that went from 7am to 9pm”!
As always, we welcome your comments and feedback. On behalf of the youth, staff, and volunteers of Carolina for Kibera, thank you all for your support! Without your generosity, our work would not be possible.
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