How peanut butter is empowering Kenyan women
Find out how a peanut butter business is giving Kenyan women financial independence and enabling them to be their own boss.
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Women at work in the peanut butter factory, supported by ActionAid. Photo: Georgina Goodwin/ActionAid
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How does poverty contribute to gender-based violence? Find out the impact it makes. Photo: ActionAid
5 links between poverty and violence against women
Living in poverty increases the risk of women and girls experiencing violence. But how does poverty cause gender-based violence? Find out more, and see how you can support ActionAid's work.
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A girl leading a session of the Girls’ Forum in Kilifi, Kenya. Photo: Mfalme Afrika Production/ActionAid
Not This Girl: UK Aid Match appeal 2018
Find out what UK Aid Match is, how it works, and how ActionAid is helping local women in rural Kenya tackle violence, abuse and gender inequality.
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Pauline, 18, at school in Kenya. Pauline lives on a dumpsite, and has experienced boys threatening to rape her, but the installation of lights in her area help her feel more safe. Photo: Jennifer Huxta/Actionaid
She Can: Addressing violence against women in urban contexts
The She Can Project (2014 – 2017), funded by DFID under its Aid Match initiative, aimed to increase safety, mobility and access to justice, and to improve gender-responsive public services for vulnerable women and girls living in cities across Bangladesh, Kenya, Myanmar and Zimbabwe.
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Abigail, 14, and Purity, 13, are childhood friends. Abigail escaped FGM and and found sanctuary at the ActionAid-supported Kongolai Girls School. She helped Purity to flee when her turn to be cut came. . Photo: Ashley Hamer /ActionAid
Free sanitary towels for Kenya’s schoolgirls
Free sanitary towels are to be given by Kenya’s government to schoolgirls - this is a big step for girls’ rights to education. Read our response to this news, marking a major step forward for girls in Kenya.
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Emily works with communities in West Pokot to support and protect women and girls and raise awareness about the dangers for FGM. Photo: Ashley Hamer /ActionAid
Meet the FGM heroes: Emily, Kenya
Emily, 42, is a local ActionAid worker who lives in West Pokot, Kenya. Committed to changing the lives of women and girls in the region, she works with a network of more than 100 women from surrounding villages to help stamp out female genital mutilation (FGM). Since ActionAid started working there, Emily says fewer girls are facing the cut and many more are staying in school. But, as she explains here, there is still much to do to end the practice for good.
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