A few words about
What We Do
Our projects
The Winny Obure Foundation is involved in championing for the rights of Women. We do this by running a few projects;
Women's Education
According to the education policy and data center report (2022) At age 15, 15% of
girls and 8% of boys are out of school. School participation is highest for girls at age
13 and for boys at age 12. The official primary school entry age in Kenya is age 6. At
that age, 36% of girls and 39% of boys are out of school.
Women's Education
Every woman deserves an education! Keeping these young and ambitious women from school is condemning entire generations to a lifetime of poverty and illiteracy. Our goal is to be a center to revive the dreams and ambitions of these resilient women, by offering access
to formal education.
Through the “Leave no woman behind”
program, we are able to enhance
gender equality and equity, promote
economic empowerment and reduce
poverty rates by providing a life-line to
women who were otherwise abandoned
by their circumstances, and let go of their
dreams & ambitions at an early age.
Pads4Progress
Across Africa, rural women, girls and those living in urban informal settlements or slums do not have ready access to basic quality feminine hygiene products
like sanitary pads, tampons, menstrual cups, period underware, or period-pain relieving medication. For the most part,
this is because of lack of income.
In Kenya, for instance, buckner.org reports that 65% of females are unable to afford sanitary pads, with up to a million school-age girls missing an average 4 days a month as a result.
In some extreme, but not so uncommon,instances women and girls are forced into‘ transactional sex’ in exchange for feminine hygiene products or money to buy the same.
Pads4Progress
At Winny Obure Foundation, through our #Pads4Progress campaign, we provide feminine hygiene products and menstrual health education to vulnerable
girls and young women in schools and communities in the rural areas.
Our goal is to promote proper menstrual health and menstrual hygiene among all women and girls because each and every woman deserves to have their dignity, regardless of their economic
backgrounds.
We achieve this through the county level advocacy, lobbying for budget allocation, monitoring and implementation and proper menstrual waste disposal in partnership with local
government agencies and community
based organizations.
Feminist Leadership
To achieve equity across all genders in Africa, we believe that it is important to bring together community feminist
leaders.
These strong women have
real-time lived experiences and
courage in championing the rights
of women and girls within their
communities.
Through this program, we promote
collaboration, capacity building, joint advocacy, skills transfer and mental wellness in order to help women leaders achieve their objectives in a more impactful way.
Feminist Leadership
We seek to forge stronger ties within the grassroots feminist movement (movement building) in Kenya by offering unrestricted seed funding to suitable organisations facilitate project execution.
We’re forever engaged in advocacy and championing for
women’s rights, and we hardly ever take time out for a mental reset. It is for this reason that we envision a month’s retreat session for feminist leaders at our African Feminists Center of Leadership and Excellence which we are setting up alongside the Women’s school in Bukoma, Budalang’i, Busia County.
Through this, feminist leaders shall be able to meet and have sharing and intervention sessions in order to take the load off their minds after long periods of back-breaking activism.
Women’s Rescue Center
Women across Africa face sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) from their spouses, relatives, guardians and caregivers. People whom one would ideally trust, suddenly become the enemy.
1 in every 3 women have experienced one or more forms of sexual violence[1].
1. World Health Organization. “Devastatingly pervasive: 1 in 3
women globally experience violence.” New York 9 (2021).
Women’s Rescue Center
At Winny Obure Foundation, we’re setting up a women and girl’s rescue center to take in and offer support to girls who have
fallen victim to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). We shall be offering a safe home to survivors of SGBV whose case may still be active in court and
could be at risk of retaliation for reporting by their oppressors. This shall also be a
port of refuge for women fleeing violent relationships, a safe haven and a home, until they voluntarily feel it is safe enough
for them to venture out and start life a new.
