Kenya

View Category:

DDA Blog Featured Image

Work of Kenyan partner Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative is featured by BBC

By Frontline Women's Fund | Jul 18, 2016
| | |

The BBC video features the rescue center and school run by Donor Direct Action partner Tasaru Ntomonok Iniative (TNI) for girls fleeing their families to escape female genital mutilation or forced marriage in the Maasai community of Kenya.

DDA Blog Featured Image

FGM is a men’s issue too

By Frontline Women's Fund | May 17, 2016
| |

“The main reason why girls in Kenya undergo FGM is to increase their marriageability. If men said no to FGM, trust me, families wouldn’t get their girls cut,” says Kenyan farmer and community worker Tony Mwebia.

Hanging-up-a-blanket-to-dry

ESCAPING FORCED MARRIAGE

By Donor Direct Action | Oct 24, 2014
| | |

Escaping Forced Marriage Most of those who listen to her mumble her story shake their heads and wonder how the fate that almost befell Judy*…