Uplifting Teen Mothers in Kenya

Mothers Education in Kenya

Summary

The project seeks to identify,rehabilitate and empower 200 teen mothers to enable them access economic and educational opportunities through training and skills-building progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Kenya, about 400 adolescent girls give birth daily, while an estimated 70,000 are expelled from school annually after getting pregnant. The project will provide vulnerable teen girls and mums with reproductive health information, life-skills and training on small-scale business to enable them to become economically self-sufficient. The project will also build their communication, decision-making skills to ensure they are not vulnerable to sexual abuse and are capable of making smart decisions

Activities

The project will provide hands-on training on entrepreneurship to ensure teen mums launch, market and sustain their business, workshops on sexuality to build their decision-making skills and remedial lessons to enable them to resume classes.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $14,571
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $10,428
Total Funding Goal: $25,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will rehabilitate and equip 200 teen mothers with educational, economic and life-skills to ensure they are able to increase their self-esteem, solidify their incomes and have the skills to make informed sexuality decisions.

Project Message

"I was kicked from school; vilified by my family and my boyfriend deserted me after I gave birth to twins. Joining the project has boosted my confidence and I can now feed my children."
- Rose Kanini, Project beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Stella Amojong
Program Coordinator
OLOO STREET, 64 ARCADE, 1st Floor
P.O Box 630
Eldoret, RIFT VALLEY PROV 30100
Kenya
+254-53-2061269
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)
Market Street Siro House, 2nd Flr, Room 207
ELDORET, RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE P.O Box 14
Kenya
+254-720-8446605

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Breaking the cycle of gender violence
Breaking the cycle of gender violence
Equipping poor families with HIV/AIDS life skills
Equipping poor families with HIV/AIDS life skills

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Encourage Rural Communities Know their HIV Status
Encourage Rural Communities Know their HIV Status
Supporting Poor Families Affected by HIV/AIDS
Supporting Poor Families Affected by HIV/AIDS

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in KenyaKenya and can also be found under HealthHealth.

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 November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

September Update

By Joe - P.M, October 22, 2009 01:47 PM

Dear GEMINI supporter,
It has been a tough year for us. But with your continued support, we have made it. Well, almost!

A recent survey shocked the country when it revealed that girls aged 10-19 confessed to having multiple sexual partners. Another 23% become pregnant and drop from school.

Yet this is just the tip of the iceberg. Adolescent girls are continuously at risk of sexual violations, unwanted pregnancy and early marriages. GEMINI has been engaged in equipping them with life-skills that would enable them make informed reproductive health decisions.

GEMINI’s twin approach provides high-risk girls with reproductive health information while at the same time rehabilitating teen mums who have dropped from school.

Over the last two months, we have partnered with local youth groups in raising awareness, providing peer counseling and free VCT to young people in urban slums. We have reached 710 youth in the following areas: Kamukunji, Mwanzo, Kapsoya and Huruma.

Your support has been crucial in our operations. We credit you with all the successes that we have attained. The following months are going to be tricky: schools will be closing next month and the festive season will be with us. Young people are known to be carefree-drinking excessively and having unprotected sex.

We need your support. We plan to mount preventive campaigns both in schools and for out-of school teens. We will use educational/entertainment activities, offer personalized counseling and distribute information materials.

Please accept our heartfelt compliments for all your support for this project. Every donation, as we have kept on saying, goes a long way in saving a life.

Thanks so much and we hope to hear from you. Keep those comments flowing..!

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