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Marking Menstrual Hygiene Day

By Girls Club, Partnerships

According to the World Bank statistics, at least 500 million women and girls globally lack adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene management (MHM).  Every year on May 28, the work marks Menstrual Hygiene Day to help break the silence and build awareness about the fundamental role that good menstrual hygiene management…

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Uweza’s First Paint and Sip Event

By Events, Partnerships, Uweza Art Gallery

While poets express themselves with words, visual artists do so with painting or drawing. Painting creates an opportunity to convey ideas, express emotion, use senses, explore color, explore process and outcomes, and create aesthetically pleasing works and experiences. Every year, the world celebrates Creativity & Innovation Day on the 21st…

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Uweza 10th Art-Versary

By Events, Partnerships, Uweza Art Gallery

This month, our art program turned ten years old. What once started as an art class in a room of our community center in November 2011 has now bloomed into Uweza Art Gallery. Over the last 10 years, our art program has nurtured talented artists in Kibera by providing them…

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Restoring Livelihoods: Our COVID-19 Response with UN Women

By COVID-19, Impact Stories, Partnerships

(Photo credit: http://www.screenshotproductions.org) Covid-19 robbed people’s livelihoods. Communities like those Uweza supports experienced job losses and became even more vulnerable. At the height of the pandemic in 2020, families living in urban informal settlements were worst hit. With prolonged lockdowns, curfews and closure of schools; many were pushed to the…

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