“Wanawake” is a Kiswahili word meaning “women” and “Tusemezane” is a Kiswahili word which means “Let’s talk”. Hence, “WanawakeTusemezane” means “Women, let’s talk.

This is a platform that presents women from Baringo County with the opportunity to air their views on pertinent issues that touch on their Sexual and ReproductiveHealth and Rights and Gender Equality.

Elimu Kwanza Initiative works among the Tugen, Pokot and the Ilchamus communities. By and large, these communities are still steeped in retrogressive traditions and cultures that are detrimental to women’s reproductive health, development and empowerment.

This program amplifies the women’s voice and encourages them to share their challenges and find home-grown solutions that suit them. Women carry myriad burdens on their shoulders so much that they forget about their well-being and personal development and financial freedom.

This program sensitizes women in the comfort of their respective locations on sexual reproductive health and rights keeping in mind that, investment in family planning will accelerate the county’s progress towards its vision by promoting healthier pregnancies, preventing maternal and child deaths and a supporting women’s full economic and political participation.

Many women are still faced with challenges of high risk pregnancies putting their lives an inch from early graves.

A women with zero access to family planning is not an empowered women. A woman who does know where her next treatment will come from is denied the right to life. The program calendar ensures they are reached wherever they are.

Family planning humongous challenges are compounded by the failure by the county leaders to finalize and fully fund the County’s Family Planning Implementation Plan. The project also has a unique women’s economic empowerment focus, supporting women-led, small, local business in the creation and distribution and distribution of sustainable menstrual kits.  In order to sustain the distribution of menstrual kits, the program aims at starting sewing centres run by women in the four constituencies in the county.

This program sensitizes women in the comfort of their respective locations on sexual reproductive health and rights keeping in mind that, investment in family planning will accelerate the county’s progress towards its vision by promoting healthier pregnancies, preventing maternal and child deaths and a supporting women’s full economic and political participation.

Many women are still faced with challenges of high risk pregnancies putting their lives an inch from early graves.

A woman with zero access to family planning is not an empowered woman. A woman who does know where her next treatment will come from is denied the right to life. The program calendar ensures they are reached wherever they are.

Family planning humongous challenges are compounded by the failure by the county leaders to finalize and fully fund the County’s Family Planning Implementation Plan. The project also has a unique women’s economic empowerment focus, supporting women-led, small, local business in the creation and distribution and distribution of sustainable menstrual kits.  In order to sustain the distribution of menstrual kits, the program aims at starting sewing centres run by women in the four constituencies in the county.

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