FAWE Kenya sensitizes community on Rise up girls project
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December 10, 2024
FAWE Kenya sensitizes community on Rise up
girls project
The Forum for
African Women Educationists Kenya Chapter has embarked on sensitizing members
of the Community in Five Counties across the country on its Rise up Girls
Project.
The Rise up Girls Project’s Officer
at FAWE Kenya Chapter Sylvia Kibisu says the Project
aim is to reduce Gender Based Barriers in girls’ education and development in
Kenya.
Kibisu says it is being implemented in
Five Counties namely Kisumu, Vihiga, Homa Bay, Turkana and Garisa.
The five counties are targeted because
they have high cases of teenage pregnancies early child marriage, Female
Genital Mutilation and Gender Based Violence according to the Kenya Demographic
Health Survey 2022.
The above issues have reportedly led to
high drop out of girls from schools hence cannot continue to pursue their
education successfully.
Addressing the press after a
sensitization program for members of the community within Kaloleni/Shaurimoyo
ward in Kisumu, Kibisu said one of the things they do at the project is to
support vulnerable girls in schools by ensuring that their fees are paid in
targeted schools across the country.
Kibisu says they are also supporting
Community Dialogue sessions where communities are sensitized on the barriers
preventing girls to access education as well as finding solutions to these
barriers.
She says as Fawe Kenya has a project that has an aspect of boys and young men involvement in championing for girl's education.
She says access to education by girls
and their retention in schools needs a multi-sectorial approach where all the
stakeholders are fully engaged.
Kibisu adds that their target as a
project is to ensure that they finance secondary education of 90 girls through
bursary before the project ends in 2025.
Derrick Omondi, a youth leader from
Manyatta in Kisumu calls for a multi-sectorial approach on the issue of
protecting the girl child, adding that in such a scenario, boy child too should
never be left out at all.
Omondi says one of the issues that have
emerged as a barrier to girl child education is that of early pregnancy which
must be addressed by all the stakeholders.
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