Maasai women speak out, bringing funding changes that will increase gender equity
When we took our campaign to the nomadic Maasai community, some living in the most remote areas of Kenya’s Kajiado County, women were amazed that the mobilizers were soliciting their opinion. In a County with deeply rooted gender inequality, they had seldom been asked what they wanted. Their loudest demands were for basic gender equality, […]
Niger State hired hundreds of health workers in response to women’s childbirth experiences
In 2020, there were one million women of reproductive age in Niger State, Nigeria – and only 66 state-employed midwives to serve them. Rates of maternal and newborn death are alarmingly high in Nigeria, and the women’s stories are heartbreaking: from being forced to deliver while scared and alone, to losing a baby because no […]
Becoming a community mobilizer – Zarina
I believe that no struggle goes in vain. If you have a will, you will find a way, no matter the obstacles. We were very poor and could hardly afford two meals per day. I started stitching clothes and my husband worked as a laborer. It was my passion to ensure that all my children […]
