Random thoughts…
Some weeks seem longer than others but time passes by so much faster when there is so much do in the same day. Since the empower net clubs started life has been on over drive, living, learning and exploring possible [...]
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Theories of Change
ZanaA was created out of my experience in Kenya for six years, working with street girls, thinking about the world of “development” and what was good and bad about it, looking at the for-profit world and what was good and [...]
Sex workers are mommies too
Are you defined by your job? Sure, your spouse might say you are married to your work, and may have considered filing a missing person’s report because you’re on the job all the time. But: is your job what defines [...]
Fighting corruption with a return on investment
The Standard Newspaper this Saturday prominently featured the results of graft and mis-management of public funds on its front page: a whopping annual cost of KES 270 billion ($3.375 billion USD). This, it notes, could pay for free primary and [...]
Seeing Red
Immediately after Thanksgiving, Americans participate in a bizarre ritual of pulling things off shelves and standing in long lines. “Black Friday,” as it is called, tries to lull us all into a belief that Christmas is all about giving stuff, [...]
The facts about keeping girls in school
Some of the benefits of keeping girls in school The facts are undisputed – keeping girls in school benefits everyone in the short- and long-term. Girls with more education have more money in the future, have less incidence of HIV [...]
ZanaA and I
The first time I heard about ZanaA I was taking tea in my room right before my classes back at school very early in the morning, when the C.E.O of ZanaA was being interviewed by Carolyne Mutoko oF Kiss 100, [...]
ZanaA’s New Year’s Plan
January 6, 2009 I am excited at what the immediate future has in store for girls in Kibera and Kawangware, two large informal settlements (aka slums) in Nairobi. Kibera and Kawangware are home to over 2.5 million people – at [...]
You Don’t Need a Million Shillings to Keep a Girl in School
It surprises me how the government spends a lot of money to buy condoms to give them free to men to continue having sex, while they cannot help a girl child access free sanitary towels to allow her to stay [...]
