What is it?
- Inspiring confidence in Kenyan women through example, education, enabling encouragement & positive experiences
- Instilling a sustainable personal development that proves the cultural barriers between Kenyan men and women are myths
- Inducing a palatable self-assurance that promotes an accurate opinion of a woman’s personhood thereby advancing her own dignity & human rights
Why do it?
- Cultural barriers for women in Kenya are significantly great
- Negative stereotyping, violence, and intimidation continue to impede women’s advancement
- Women are subjugated to repeated abuses on all levels while being relegated to a preponderance of life responsibilities
- Nearly 40% of households are run solely by women and, because of a lack of fair income, nearly all these homes suffer from poverty or extreme poverty
- Women continue to be educated at an inferior rate to men
- Women are often prohibited from owning, acquiring, and controlling property
- Pregnancy-related complications are among the greatest killers of women in East Africa
How will we apply empowerment principles?
- The Center will exhibit and request of its staff & employees an attitude and behavior that manifests equal rights for all human beings
- The Center does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, national and ethnic origin in its services or its employment
- The Center is a champion of women believing that they are the heart of their families and communities. It has been said that if you educate a woman, you have educated her whole village.
- The Center will exhibit, educate, encourage and enable the empowerment of women through its E4 Program utilizing local and international resources
What are our plans for Community Outreach?
To empower women of the community through education in the following areas:
- Safe Motherhood (Pregnancy & Pre-natal Care)
- Child Survival
- nutrition
- dehydration
- parasites
- malaria
- Income Generation (see Micro-enterprise training)
- handicrafts
- foods
- services
- Education
- includes all the skills herein listed as offered at the Center
What are the Potential Outcomes?
- Better quality of life for community women & their children
- Improved maternal health
- Possible saved lives of child-bearing women
- Possible saved lives of children & increased developmental well-being
- Increased income potential and thus self-sufficiency
- Increased confidence in a positive identity
- Possible attitude changes within the culture of the community towards the potential, the rights and the role of the woman