"Kwa dawa ya TB ni lazima utembee mpaka upate." (You should never give up when searching for anti-TB medicines). This is the advice that Esther Wahome gives to her clients when they come to the tuberculosis (TB)...
Sharon Cherutich Mutai is a produce vendor at a small but bustling market along the highway connecting Kenya and Uganda through the Great Rift Valley town of Eldoret. Normally Sharon, who is in her 30s, is busy selling...
The Kenya Women Parliamentary Association is an all-party caucus of women members of Kenya’s National Assembly. The association is changing the way Kenya’s legislature conducts its budget analysis. Their...
In Kenya's Tana River District, both pastoralists and farmers suffer when there is drought. Many of the indigenous communities grow maize, beans, mangoes, and various traditional vegetables. Lacking an irrigation...
Kenyan Minister for Public Health and Sanitation Beth Mugo launched a national campaign to stop new HIV infections among children by 2015 and to keep their mothers alive. The new initiative, announced in November...
Mary Amanya, a resident of Bushiri village Kakamega in Western Kenya, appreciates the mosquito net she received in July, 2012. Mary is an elderly woman who lives with her husband and grandchildren. Not one member of...
“Women nurture leaders, but they are not given the chance to be leaders. The leadership position for women in Kenya’s rural communities is a requisite that has been long overdue for women,” said the Hon.
One Moms blog their way through Kenya
This past week, the folks at ONE joined 10 bloggers who made their way through Kenya to see what life is really like for moms in the developing world. It’s been great to...
Although Bernard Maroko’s changaa (a locally-brewed, but illegal alcoholic beverage) brewing business was thriving, he just wasn’t happy. He didn’t want to be involved in the illegal trade anymore....
The Baraki Village Women’s Group is located 30 kilometers from the Shanta-Abaq shopping center in Lagdera District. The group was launched in August 2009 by five women, and has since grown to 12 members. The group was...
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